Word: primes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...travelers were able to talk of the fighting in Viet Nam, trade difficulties with Japan, sniping across the DMZ in Korea, Communist insurgency in Thailand. Looking back, most of them agreed that perhaps the most pleasant days of the trip were spent in Malaysia, where they were entertained by Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
...Tsarapkin's words was a warning: any further tightening of the profitable West German-Chinese trade links would be most unwelcome to the Russians. In Paris, Rome and Tokyo, Tsarapkin's colleagues were giving the French, Italian and Japanese Foreign Ministers roughly the same message. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau also got the word. The intent was clear: China, no longer a brotherly socialist nation but instead a dangerous foe, should be expelled from the ranks of civilized nations...
Some policymakers at Ford Motor Co. must rue the day, back in 1911, that the company set up shop in Britain. Though its pay scales run well above the industry average in Britain, Ford has been a prime target of wildcat strikes that torment the country's economy and damage its deteriorating trade position. Last year Ford lost 1.2 million man-hours to "unofficial" walkouts, often led by only a handful of professional soreheads. Lately the company has hoped to buy its way out of the strike nightmare by offering its workers a simple tit-for-tat: extra money...
...confessed that they felt like characters in Alice in Wonderland. They could hardly overstate the absurdity of bargaining with scores of union leaders who do not have to consult their membership either before or after an agreement and who are often out of touch with the people they represent. Prime Minister Harold Wilson condemned the strike leaders for imperiling Britain's efforts to build exports and employment. All that has happened at Ford, he said, only provides powerful support for his government's plan to enact laws against wildcat strikes...
...some my way." Now the message is moving in the other direction. The tobaccomen are being told by some celebrities: "Shove off." Last week, as the TV networks signed up sponsors for the 1969-70 season, big names and small names alike opened fire on cigarettes. At least two prime-time talents, Doris Day and Lawrence Welk, have sworn off performing on programs sponsored by cigarette manufacturers. So have a number of announcers, actors and commercial "voices," who can earn as much as $100,000 from a single cigarette campaign...