Word: traded
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...into the Common Market are as remote as ever. Nor is there any likelihood that France will heed the plea of Common Market President Jean Rey to abandon the right to veto major proposals and to give the Market's supranational agencies more power to regulate trade. As Common Market Vice President Sicco Mansholt declared: "The Gaullist victory means an important delay in the political progress of Europe...
Powerless Leaders. Of all their labor troubles, wildcat strikes hurt the British the most. Last month a Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Associations reported that 95% of British strikes are unofficial. The commission found that between 1964 and 1966 there were 2,171 wildcat strikes among the U.K.'s 500 trade unions; they involved 653,400 workers and 1,697,000 lost man-days of work. Over the same period, Britain had only 74 official strikes by 101,100 workers, with 733 000 lost man-days. "Britain is 50 years " behind U.S. the Labor U.S. in labor...
Once their pipelines are completed, Egypt and Israel will find themselves ri vals for the same trade. Cairo is obviously counting on its Arab neighbors, which currently produce 75% of the Middle East's oil annually, to keep its line bubbling. The region's only major non-Arab producer is Iran, on which Israel relies for much of its domestic oil needs. But predominantly Moslem Iran is sure to come under heavy Arab pressure to steer its oil-cargo trade in Cairo's direction. So, even though its pipeline is expected to be finished first, Israel...
...took 20 years and $75 million to develop (compared with $27 million for nylon). Thus it was no wonder that the security at Du Font's Chattanooga, Tenn., pilot plant took on Pentagon proportions. To the trade, it was known simply as "Fiber Y." Even at the press preview, Du Pont took no chances of leaking the process before it hits the market at year's end. Six models wearing Qiana garments were escorted by armed guards to prevent any overanxious competitor from the common practice of snipping a sample swatch...
...Frazier, 24, will never float like a butterfly or sting like a bee. He does not even practice poetastry or Islam. Though he is no Muhammad Ali, Joltin' Joe is still the second-best heavyweight in the world, and there is excitement in his artless approach to his trade. Utterly lacking in fistic science, Frazier is a slugger in the savage style of Rocky Marciano. "I punch and get punched," says Joe. "He lays it on me, and I lay it on him. That's what fightin' is all about...