Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stanford officials claim, perhaps in an attempt to persuade the Cantabridgian Khrushchev into putting his shoe back on, that the whole controversy has been blown out of proportion by the article. "We never offered her anything that any other Music major doesn't have access to," Tanya Granoff, assistant to the dean of admissions, told The Crimson last week...
...industries from foreign competition. More than 200 trade bills have been introduced, and protectionist sentiment is becoming so strong that it could overshadow all other political issues this fall. While Reagan, with considerable reason and courage, has opposed protectionist measures and last week decided against helping the domestic shoe industry (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), he is taking a heavy political risk. Part of his problem is that he has let the trade issue get away from him, instead of forcefully dealing with it earlier in the year, when a clear-cut Administration policy might have alleviated some of the pressure...
...some 75% of sales in the U.S. this year. But if American manufacturers have lost the battle in the marketplace, they have tried to recoup in the political arena. For more than a year the industry has been waging a campaign to persuade President Reagan to impose quotas on shoes made overseas. Enlisted in the effort were 168 Congressmen, 40 Senators and 20 Governors, who sent letters or telegrams to the President. Shoe workers staged a two-day vigil in Lafayette Square, across from the White House...
...industry, however, has been no more successful in politics than in shoe stores. Last week the President resisted the pressure and refused to approve shoe quotas. "Protectionism is both ineffective and extremely expensive," he said. "It is a crippling cure, far more dangerous than any economic illness...
Some bosses think they can elicit brainstorms from their workers simply by plying them with coffee and doughnuts. But Bruce Katz, president of Rockport Co., a shoe manufacturer in Marlboro, Mass., thinks a little sun and wind surfing are a much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss...