Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Increasing competition from Japan has prevented any significant increase in foreign sales of Indian cotton goods. The jute industry, faced with competition from Indonesia and Pakistan, is so deep in the doldrums that more than 10% of India's looms are being held idle in an attempt to maintain world jute prices...
...cars, 23% ahead of last year. But Ford's Edsel is riding a bumpy road. Sales dropped from 11,655 in September to 7,601 in October. Last week Edsel lost its only Manhattan Dealer, Charles Kreisler. Said he: "We couldn't maintain volume large enough to make it profitable...
...COMMON MARKET is running into opposition from free nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. At annual meeting of 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) these countries protested because common market plans to eliminate tariffs on imports from its own members' overseas territories, but maintain steep tariffs on other imports. Thus, French and Belgian territories in Africa would get much of the brisk European tea, coffee and cocoa trade now dominated by India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana...
...York and Boston, however, were omitted from the list because these clubs normally maintain close contact with the College and because the large numbers of students from these cities would make selection of speakers difficult, it was said...
...birthplace, the Premier appealed to the natives: "Do not live like the Pygmies!" He urged them to come back to civilization, gave them ten days to come out of the jungle or be treated as rebels. By regrouping huts near roads, where they can be guarded, he hopes to maintain order, proceed with the slow evolution toward real and responsible independence. Last week, as M'bida's grace period expired, hundreds straggled back from the jungle. The UPC retaliated by burning half a dozen villages, killing scores of terrorized men and women...