Word: pricing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This weekend while I train with my platoon, I will think of your Essay. Then I will look at their faces; not the faces of draft dodgers or trophy polishers, but the faces of soldiers. They do not pretend to be professionals, and theirs is not a very high price to pay compared with their active-duty buddies in Viet Nam. Yet their faces will tell me something that makes me quite proud to be with them and a member of the Guard: that they are ready to pay that price if they are needed...
...Small Price. Far more than the 60-man Senate, the newly chosen House mirrors the frailties and divisions of Vietnamese political life. Though the average age of the winning candidates is 40, few have any experience in national politics, and only about half possess any identifiable political allegiance. They range from ultraconservative nationalists to radical, non-Communist leftists, and include 16 representatives of Viet Nam's ethnic minorities, 18 former Deputies in the Assembly that wrote the new constitution, 27 military officers on leave or retired, 33 civil servants, 25 teachers and 14 militant Buddhists. Despite widespread fears that...
...protester then asked that the demonstration stick to its original "limited objective." But when the protesters got back to the Dow issue, they decided to raise the price of Leavitt's freedom. He had to promise not only that he would not return, but also that his company would never recruit again at Harvard. Some-one pointed out that Leavitt was not empowered to make company policy on the spot. This bothered the protesters only until someone else observed, "He can use the telephone, can't he? Have him call Dow and get a decision...
...even including the gain from sale of some British holdings. Goodrich's trouble was an 86-day strike that hit major rubber companies earlier this year. The strike held up deliveries to customers and resulted in wage increases that have so far not been compensated for by the price increases that Goodrich and other companies in the industry instituted after the strike was settled...
...estimated 450,000 tons, or 20% of last year's refinery output. As a result, many American buyers have turned to the London market and mopped up the 140,000-ton world surplus that had been anticipated this year. By last week, U.S. buying had driven copper prices on the London Metal Exchange up from 44½? a Ib. to 50⅛? a Ib. Most producers are surprised that the price has stayed that low; London copper prices normally gyrate on the flimsiest sort of news and early in 1966 they briefly hit a peak...