Word: trade
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...Much? Cutbacks in Government spending can be achieved by encouraging private industry to invest abroad (e.g., by easing up on taxation of income from abroad, by guaranteeing industry against abnormal risks) and promoting freer trade (e.g., by simplifying customs procedures, lowering tariffs). But even with increased private foreign investment and freer trade...
...victor of the November crisis has not fared well under the wasting pressures of its aftermath. The blocked canal has cost Egypt heavily in revenues and business dependent on its traffic; Port Said is an economic wasteland and its citizens in an ugly mood. Egypt's profitable tourist trade has dried up. Nasser's expulsion of British, French and Jewish residents (an estimated total of 30,000 people) and the "Egyptianization" of foreign banks and agencies has resulted in a devastating dislocation of the economy. Nasser still seems to be holding the popularity of the Egyptian masses, whose...
Ahmed Fuad, whose application for a U.S. visa was delayed so long on the ground of his Communist connections that he ended by withdrawing it, directs the government's powerful Foreign Trade Co. In press and propaganda, key jobs on Cairo's three government papers belong to party members, and the propaganda draws so heavily on Communist techniques as to argue coaching. Khaled Moheddine, who went into exile during Nasser's early days because he was too Red for Nasser, is back editing the government's daily Al Missa. His cousin, Zachariah Moheddine...
...great breakthroughs in psychiatry (TIME, March 7, 1955), the use of the tranquilizers has spread to masses of mine-run neurotics and other people vexed with problems and pressures. For a time, when most states permitted an unlimited number of refills for tranquilizer prescriptions, Equanil and Miltown (trade names for meprobamate) were the hottest items in many a big-city pharmacy. The situation became so alarming that states are tightening regulations, putting tranquilizers on the same non-refillable prescription basis as barbiturates...
Bulloch's biggest coup still has Oklahoma politicians in a dither. In the 1956 election he uncovered a brisk trade in absentee ballots which had given State Senator John Russell a narrow victory over Representative Tom Payne. The outcome: Payne was seated in the state senate while his opponent and several other state officials, including an aide to Democratic Governor Raymond Gary, were charged with conspiracy. Soon after this investigation, Bulloch was warned that disgruntled politicians were out to avenge the vote-fraud exposure...