Word: repeals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiations, the American team made a tentative agreement, subject to approval of Congress, to eliminate the American Selling Price (ASP) method of evaluating certain chemicals (mostly dyes and pigments). The chemical industry considers this a life-and-death matter and is feverishly lobbying to defeat the legislation to repeal...
...industry is currently adopting the argument that repeal of ASP would damage the industry and cause large-scale job cuts among semi-skilled workers. According to the industry these people are often Negroes and Puerto Ricans, who would have great difficulty finding other jobs with similar pay. The industry often points out that Newark and New Jersey would be particularly threatened...
...duty in the Kennedy Round agreement provide a comfortable level of tariff protection, according to most impartial economists. And the level of protection is well above the other major chemical-producing countries. Still Congressional trade expansionists will never convince their fellow chemical protectionists, and the passage of an ASP repeal motion is questionable...
...prospect is for favorable House action this year. If the bill is finally enacted, it will by no means repeal Barnum's law that a sucker is born every minute, but it may at least amend it to let the boob know for just how much he is being taken...
...while all humans apply the same basic code, they can reach dramatically individual and divergent conclusions. The so-called primitive mind, for one example, abhors change. It builds societies designed to repeal history: "What primitive man seeks above all is not truth but coherence; not the scientific distinction between true and false but a vision of the world that will satisfy his soul...