Word: trade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been attracted by the analytical device. Both advanced economies and underdeveloped countries have adopted Leontief's mode to answer specific questions that are pertinent to them. Underdeveloped countries are primarily interested in it for planning purposes; while advanced economies, particularly in Europe, are employing it to help solve trade balance problems...
Norway and Holland were largely interested in solving import-export problems, and used the new system along with their national income accounts to see what effect a shift in the trade balance would have on industry. Several South American nations, including Argentina, Peru, Chile, and Equador are also using Leontief's device. Great Britain has employed it for several years...
...endowed several departments and institutions of the University, especially the Medical School. There is a Bullard Professorship of Neuropathology at the Medical School, which was established by Louisa Norton Bullard and her children in memory of her husband, William Story Bullard, a Boston merchant prominent in the East India trade...
Table Talk. The Federal Trade Commission also got moving last week, filed complaints against nine record companies -including mighty RCA-charging payola and other "unfair and deceptive acts." Same day, five FTC commissioners sat down at a long, dark mahogany table, solemnly exchanged views on phony advertising with the broadcasting varsity: CBS's Dr. Frank Stanton, NBC's Robert Kintner, ABC's Oliver Treyz, Mutual's Robert F. Hurleigh. Smooth talk flew back and forth as everyone tried to outdo everyone else in deploring the subject at hand. Only a few admen were guilty of malpractice...
There was more unanimity on the N.A.M.'s contention that labor featherbedding threatens the U.S.'s competitive position in world trade. "It is a plain economic fact," said Sinclair Oil Vice President Millard E. Stone, "that the country can no longer afford to let management be handcuffed by archaic work rules which prevent maximum efficiency, nor by the kind of uneconomic wage increases which subject the public to further inflationary pressures. Our continued failure to recognize the impact of labor costs on our competitive standing has brought us to the point where we stand to lose our domestic...