Word: traded
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...Wilson had some information that made that statement sound merely overoptimistic rather than like sheer nonsense. Britain's trade deficit dropped 42% in June, the best performance in any month since devaluation, and Europe's central bankers showed their confidence in the pound by giving Britain $2 billion in new stand-by credits to defend it. A Daily Mail poll showed that the massive Tory lead of 23.5% in April had been cut to 13.5% this month. Then, last week, Labor scored its second parliamentary by-election victory in five weeks. The win at Caerphilly, Wales, was narrow...
...shrill polemics are gone, the layout is conservative. Compared with the psychedelic sheets put out by today's revolutionary-minded kids, the Daily World seems almost as prosaic as a house organ for some large trade union. In its first issues, it reported the first New York-Moscow air link, the threatening steel strike, the tussle over the poverty program. An editorial had some kind words for the U.S.: "The recent increase in activity in Washington and Moscow toward more cordial relations should be welcomed by all Americans." And some sharp words for "selfstyled Leftists who denounce any step...
...Federal Trade Commission is fretting over the number as well as the size of acquisitions. Last year there were half again as many mergers (1,500) as there were in 1966, and 83% of them involved conglomerates. Large mergers (involving companies with assets of $10 million or more) doubled to 155; during the first two months of this year, no fewer than 40 more were pending or completed...
...plan-the industry's first major attempt to mollify its critics - was devised during six years of research by the American Mutual Insurance Alliance, a 122-member trade group. Ex plains President Paul S. Wise: "As conceived more than half a century ago, an auto-liability policy was designed to protect the driver of a car against law suits, not to compensate the accident victim. Legally, this is still so. But public expectations have shifted toward protecting the injured." Though the alliance carefully calls its plan" Guaranteed Benefits," the guarantee does not cover property damage; it applies only...
Such confidence seemed deserved. After nothing but disappointing news for months, Britain's latest trade figures show that devaluation and Wilson's austerity measures-a bare-bones national budget, tight wage controls and heavy new taxes-have finally started to work. During June, the government announced last week, the country's exports continued their slow but steady increase. More encouraging, imports showed their biggest monthly decline since devaluation, indicating that consumer spending, which had been fueled by fear of higher prices, has finally started to ease. As a result, the country's trade deficit for June...