Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disagree. Over a period of years, the U.S. has adopted international conventions governing safety at sea and now requires all ships calling at U.S. ports to pick up passengers to meet the same strict standards. At first many shipowners objected. But those eager for a share of a lucrative market quickly complied. Oil shippers would almost surely do the same...
Responding to continuing cries from the West, the Japanese were already taking some steps to reduce their trade surplus before the latest dustup. For instance, in 1977 as in '76, Tokyo will limit steel exports to the Community to 1.4 million tons. But at Common Market headquarters in Brussels, these steps have been viewed as too little, too late. In November, over lunch in Brussels, European Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach warned Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Bunroku Yoshino that Japan would have to submit a comprehensive plan to right the trade imbalance or face retaliation. The Europeans, for example, could...
...Grab. On Thanksgiving Day, Tokyo replied. It proposed to hold Japanese auto exports to Britain to 10% or less of the British market, to increase quotas on imports of European skimmed milk, butter and cheese into Japan, and to line up more Japanese importers of processed meats and retailers of imported tobacco. Most encouraging to the Europeans, the Japanese also agreed to negotiations on shipbuilding, the sorest issue of all. In the first nine months of 1976, Japan grabbed 86% of all shipbuilding contracts awarded in industrialized countries. European shipbuilders claim that the Japanese can underbid them...
...that position in talks last week with a European delegation that visited Tokyo. The Europeans, in response, have set two new deadlines: Japan must offer an acceptable compromise on shipbuilding by mid-January, and must detail an overall plan to reduce its trade surplus before the next Common Market summit meeting in February...
...Hollywood that people who clamor for cleaner movies do not go to them, Dayton says: "There is an audience out there that is getting tired of sex scenes and gutter language. There is a need for more family films. Disney makes them, but it does not have the market sewed...