Word: selling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only modestly advanced relations between the two countries, but they served as tokens of the payoff that normalization is supposed to bring. The U.S. agreed to let Peking open consulates in Houston and San Francisco in exchange for American consulates in Canton and Shanghai. The U.S. also promised to sell China on credit a communications satellite system that will cost about $500 million, and a 50-billion electron-volt accelerator, used in nuclear research. This would cost up to $200 million and would be the largest such installation in China, but only one-eighth the energy of one now operating...
...While establishing full diplomatic relations with the P.R.C., the U.S. stated its intention to continue to sell defensive weapons to Taiwan. President Carter acknowledged that your government does 'not agree" with this policy, but he said your government "understands" it. Would you amplify your attitude toward this policy...
...freedom to set rates; railmen are for it. Interestingly, O'Neal doubts that rail deregulation will do much good. He fears that it would be used to hike rates, not cut them, and considers trucking deregulation more important. Since trucks haul just about everything that Americans buy or sell, he is probably right...
...wheel spinning. Plans to build an assembly plant in the U.S. and to merge with archcompetitor Saab-Scania have both had to be given up for one reason or another. Last week Gyllenhammar got his biggest setback yet; opposition by Volvo shareholders forced him to scrap a plan to sell 40% of the company to the Norwegian government and a group of private investors in return for $225 million in cash and some potentially lucrative exploration and drilling rights in the North...
...their own and dealt with each other one on one. AMREX offers major property dealers an organized exchange resembling those provided for commodity traders and stock and bond investors. AMREX works in much the same manner as do other exchanges. The 2,500 members who actively buy and sell through AMREX ante up token annual dues of $575. For this they can key into the exchange's international real estate listings, which are beamed daily to AMREX headquarters by satellite from Europe. The listings are displayed on the video terminals, and with the help of a 1,000-page...