Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Church in Warsaw, where people could learn what happened to relatives and friends and could even arrange to send them parcels. Priests were being allowed into a few of the camps. Some detainees told horror stories of the brutality of the militia, whose members sometimes carry special steel-cored nightsticks capable of breaking bones...
...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, warned that new forms of trade barriers are being established for both industrial products and raw materials. Said he: "With the exception of tropical products, some sporting goods and a few minor manufactured items, all the major areas of international trade-agriculture, steel, textiles, synthetic fibers and other petrochemical products-are already under cartel systems. The situation is politically dangerous because it is bound to increase tensions between countries." Next week top-level representatives of the U.S., the European Community, Japan and Canada will meet in Florida to discuss growing international-trade problems...
...Japan's export-led growth. No longer content to be just peddlers of cheap clothing or cookware these new Japans are moving into heavy industry and consumer electronics Singapore is second to the U.S. in building oil-drilling rigs. South Korea has become a major force in world steel production and shipbuilding and is now sending television sets to the U.S. and automobiles to Great Britain. Taiwan is the fourth largest supplier of machine tools to the U.S. and is moving into minicomputers...
...more and more Western companies feel squeezed by foreign competition the pressure grows from industry and labor groups for new barriers to imports The U.S. already has restrictions on the inflow of textiles, steel and other wares The Japanese last year agreed to limit auto exports to the U.S. and some European countries, after being threatened with quotas. Protectionist sentiment, though will be opposed by consumer demands for low-priced imports and by Western governments fighting inflation...
...Indecent Obsession, McCullough (1 last week) 2. Cujo, King (2) 3. Noble House, Clavell (4) 4. The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (3) 5. Masquerade, Williams 6. No Time for Tears, Freeman (5) 7. Remembrance, Steel (6) 8. Gorky Park, Smith 9. God Emperor of Dune, Herbert 10. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley...