Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago, in the happy afterglow of the Kennedy Round of tariff reductions, a trade war between...
...Smith's breakaway white regime in Rhodesia. Singapore and Malaysia deplored Britain's planned military withdrawal from points east of Suez. Australia and New Zealand were unhappy about London's hankerings to join Europe's Common Market, a move that would cost them dearly in tariff concessions. Four East African members that are anxious to get rid of their Asian minorities (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) were outraged because Britain was not willing to take them off their hands and decided to boycott the conference's discussions on the subject...
...racing successes. It absorbed many early rivals and moved from artisan to assembly-line production, which enabled it to build 70% of the Italian Army's World War I trucks. The company went on to furnish Mussolini's military, and Il Duce rewarded it with the tariff protection and freedom from strikes that guaranteed its preeminence. In 1921, the year before Mussolini took power, Gianni Agnelli was born to a life of elegance and power-and, eventually, responsibility...
...join at once with the other major Western allies in warning the Soviet Union after the invasion of Czechoslovakia that any aggression against the Federal Republic would be met by force. They were further disappointed that the French had just used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit France, if necessary. Some Germans were also contemplating the creation...
...expensive for today's jet-borne businessman, who often zips in and out of two or three cities in a single day. Now, in New York at least, he can rent a place to hold private business meetings or relax between engagements without paying the full 24-hour tariff. The Hilton's Day-Hour Plan should also prove a boon to suburban wives who need somewhere to put themselves back together after a day of shopping before meeting their husbands for an evening on the town...