Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being the wise consumer that I am--I read the rest of the page and learned that these slippers were in fact the latest in running shoe technology...
They were called, appropriately enough, the Sock Racer (although I wondered who would wear yellow socks), and would become, the shoe company claimed, the newest phase of the running shoe revolution...
...Administration's rejection of relief for the shoe industry is sure to exacerbate the clamor in Congress to impose quotas, raise tariffs and otherwise stifle free trade. There are now more than 200 bills on Capitol Hill that seek aid for products ranging from petrochemicals to waterbed liners. As the trade deficit grows to an estimated $150 billion this year, the drive to block imports is gaining momentum...
Last May the International Trade Commission decided that shoe imports were causing "serious injury" to the domestic industry. The I.T.C. in June ruled, 4 to 1, that the Government should limit imports of nonrubber shoes valued at more than $2.50 to 474 million pairs for the first two years of a five-year quota plan. Such a program would have stepped on plenty of toes. Footwear prices would probably have risen by as much as 15% in the first year. While protectionist measures may save some jobs, consumers almost always suffer because the limit on supplies drives up prices...
...past, Kremlin propaganda has often sounded to the rest of the world, and even to Soviet citizens, like, well, propaganda. The Soviets were once clumsy and loutish as salesmen. When Nikita Khrushchev wanted to make a point at the United Nations in 1960, he took off his shoe and waved it. Mikhail Gorbachev, by contrast, is a walking advertisement for a different Soviet way of doing things. He is a smooth performer in public and a skillful articulator of the Kremlin line. Like the new man in charge, Soviet propaganda has become subtler and more adroit. A recent example...