Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anyway, tariff cuts are no longer the only key to liberalizing trade. The Geneva negotiators will also try to dismantle many of the 800 to 850 NTMs (for "nontariff measures"), which are often deemed to be much more restrictive for international trade than tariffs themselves. NTMs range from straightforward quotas, to subtle and not-so-subtle local labeling requirements, to health, technical and environmental standards that can stop foreigners from freely entering another country's domestic market...
...film tells the story of a year in the lives of three Vaganova students-an 11-year-old girl, a 13-year-old boy and a young woman about to graduate. This is done in a straightforward, quite artless manner. There is a little spurious drama about the graduate's nervousness over her final recital, but the audience learns quickly that she really had nothing to worry about, as the Kirov had decided to accept her some time before. The picture is at its best when it shows youngsters trying out for admission to the school and when...
...intimidated when I walked in to the exam, but now I'm very unawed," said Martha G. Finnemore '81. "I thought it was very straightforward and not as difficult as I thought it would...
...sincere appeal to simplicity has won the hearts of listeners who have boosted the song well up into the Top 40 charts. With the gentle Fender Rhodes playing background to a pair of soft acoustic guitars, Joel has put together a tune that succeeds because it is so straightforward...
...cool, straightforward woman, Gray won grudging respect even from her adversaries at Yale for her toughness in the face of fiscal adversity. She stood up to a protracted strike of college service workers and even-to save about $85,000 a year-closed the Yale Faculty Club...