Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist and left-wing Socialist majority to their local Parliament, the Grand Council. Heady with power, the nation's new rulers took over with an impressive program of local improvements, including nationalization of the nation's only two factories, which both manufacture ceramic souvenirs for the tourist trade. But the new deal never quite came off. One by one the Red faithful left the fold. Three weeks ago San Marino's Demo-Christian minority leader suddenly woke up to the fact that his party now commanded a clear majority of 31 to 29 in the Council. Aware...
...congestion, establishing an arts council, tireless Jean Drapeau has convinced Montrealers that the mayor can be more than a circus ringmaster. And although glasses still clink in nightclubs until dawn, big-scale vice has been run out of business-with no evident harm to Montreal's lusty tourist trade or Drapeau's popularity. Says he: "Here in Montreal people used to think that prostitution was necessary to keep down the crime of rape. We found out that sex fiends were only using whorehouses to practice up for careers of rape...
When Prime Minister John Diefenbaker proposed last July that Canada trim its trade deficit with the U.S. by diverting 15% of its trade from the U.S. to the United Kingdom, he unintentionally put Britain's Tory leadership on the spot. The Empire-thumping wing of the British Tories, which strongly opposes London's tentative plan to join the European Free Trade Area, pounced on Diefenbaker's suggestion as opening up a practical alternative, even though Diefenbaker gave no real inkling on how the Canadians proposed to implement the shift. Last week Britain's Chancellor...
...seconded him. Fleming thereupon hastened to spell out far more specifically than ever before what his government had in mind in making the original proposal for a 15% shift. Canada, he said, would switch all possible government purchasing from the U.S. to the U.K., would send a high-level trade delegation to Britain, and would consider lowering barriers against purchases in Britain by Canadian tourists. For his part, Thorneycroft soothingly took the steam out of his free-trade proposal by describing it as such a long-term project, i.e., twelve to 15 years, that he expected no official Canadian reply...
Only a third of the cave had been excavated by last week, and the torso of Laocoön himself was still among the missing pieces. To complicate matters, the citizens of Sperlonga were trying to keep the fragments in home ground. Thinking of tourist-trade possibilities, they rolled a five-ton rock before the cave entrance, dug a moat to frustrate approaching trucks. Still, having logic, culture and Cops all on his side, Jacopi was determined to get the entire cave excavated and the fragments transported to Rome, where they can be expertly examined and reassembled to determine whether...