Word: steeling
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...most immediate question is what the Reagan Administration and Congress are going to do about the outsize dollar and trade imbalances. That they have to do something, and quickly, is not in any doubt. The U.S. trade deficit, or excess of imports (shoes and shirts from Taiwan, cars, steel, just about anything made in Japan, to cite some particularly contentious items) over exports (farm products, jet planes, computers are major ones), is heading toward a record $150 billion this year. That is nearly four times what it was as recently as 1981. The surge in imports and lag in exports...
...meanwhile been developing a telling case for opposing import restrictions. It is true, they concede, that foreign nations often discriminate against U.S. exports. But the U.S. is a sinner too. From time to time it has negotiated quotas, sometimes disguised as "voluntary" agreements with foreign producers, on imports of steel, autos, sugar and even textiles. In a study for the Institute for International Economics, C. Fred Bergsten and William Cline contend that the U.S. restricts imports from Japan about as much as Japan limits purchases from the U.S. Another widely quoted estimate is that if all the restrictions that American...
...sign was composed of 14 red plastic and stainless steel letters spelling "The Harvard Coop." The letters were 30 inches high and extended almost 60 feet. The entire sign weighed approximately...
...case focuses on $12.5 million that investors put up for research and development of the DeLorean, a sleek, stainless-steel sports car with distinctive gull-wing doors. The indictment charges that beginning in 1978 DeLorean funneled much of that money into a mysterious Panamanian company called GPD Services, which in turn deposited the funds at the Pierson Bank in Amsterdam. Eventually, $8.9 million went from that bank into DeLorean's personal account at New York's Citibank. Of that amount, the indictment says, DeLorean used $7.5 million to buy Utah-based Logan Manufacturing, which makes equipment for maintaining ski slopes...
During the 1950s, TV series without continuing characters or story lines, such as Playhouse 90 and The U.S. Steel Hour, provided some of prime time's most illustrious moments. In 1985 this kind of liberation from a rigid weekly format offers viewers a new and welcome sensation: the feeling that on any given week, they might be shaken from their easy chairs by the sight of something totally unexpected...