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...Japan tend to be cheaper and better tailored to national tastes than most heavily taxed U.S. imports, some governments may even prefer to see real competition in some fields, e.g., textiles, rather than U.S. retaliation against their own dollar exports. Another effect of quota relaxations may be to prompt U.S. manufacturers to design goods specifically for European markets. Competition, said Antoine Pinay, is "the best of stimulants and the most effective of disciplines...
Whenever a member of a force . . . is prosecuted under the jurisdiction of a receiving State he shall be entitled to a prompt and speedy trial [and ] to be confronted with the witnesses against him. -NATO Status of Forces Agreement
While Author Hart guides his characters through their scenes, he also manages some fascinating asides. There is Hart's quick test of tryout success (when a play is doing well, room service is always prompt, but when it is in trouble, the waiters are always late and the sandwiches soggy); there is Hart's law for the aspiring director (the less sure he is of himself, the tougher he must be with the cast). Hart knows how to interpret all the sounds made by an audience: the implications of their coughs, the degrees of their laughter, the intensity...
...week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government had desperately hoped to avoid, directed an urgent appeal to the U.N. Cabled Khampan: "In face of this fagrant aggression, for which [North] Viet Nam must bear the entire responsibility . . . the Royal Laotian Government requests the prompt dispatch of a [U.N.] emergency force...
...Novosibirsk-many dispatches missed their U.S. deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...