Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...European Community investigation into the whereabouts of the missing uranium was frustratingly incomplete. Two months after the Scheersberg A sailed from Antwerp, the Common Market's atomic energy agency (Euratom) routinely asked the Italian paint company SAICA whether the uranium had arrived. When told no, Euratom began an inquiry into what it called the "Plumbat Affair." The search was hampered by the agency's lack of police powers, and after a few months Euratom called on security forces of the Western nations for help. A West German investigation was abruptly -and mysteriously-halted shortly after it began...
...color transparencies from the film were stolen from the production offices; they are now selling for more than $5 each to sci-fi freaks. Some of the spaceship models used for special effects were later stolen from a workshop, and they too are being advertised on the open market. "Star Wars is the costume epic of the future," says Ben Bova, editor of Analog, one of the leading science fiction magazines. "It's a galactic Gone With the Wind. It's perfect summer escapist fare...
Last week Carter brought off a success in his case-by-case strategy when the Japanese, after complex negotiations, agreed to cut back drastically their exports of color TV sets to the U.S. In the early 1970s, the Japanese share of the U.S. TV set market was about 16%. Then last year Japanese imports spurted to 2.9 million sets-38% of the market-and the trend has continued...
...Carter-Strauss trade agenda is an agreement on the shoe problem, which politically is even more explosive than TV sets. Says one White House official: "TV has maybe two dozen Senators. Shoes have 80 Senators." Since 1968, lower-priced imported shoes have captured 46% of the U.S. market. Result: 300 American shoe factories have been forced to close, ending 70,000 jobs. While Congress has been clamoring for tariffs and quotas to protect what remains of the U.S. shoe industry, Strauss has negotiated a tentative agreement with two big exporters to the U.S.-Taiwan and South Korea-that would provide...
Though Carter appears to be battling for free trade, he is, in reality, fighting a delaying action. The institutions of quotas and market-sharing arrangements undercut the free-trade principle that the U.S., with some lapses, has supported since World War II. But the Europeans, as well as the Japanese, have been chipping away at that principle steadily-for example, by setting up deals that guarantee commodity prices for a number of developing countries. This bodes ill for the so-called Tokyo Round of international trade talks under way in Geneva, originally intended to be another breakthrough, like the Kennedy...