Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been underestimating its capacity for investments. We recommended first a primer on how to judge strength for investments, and second, that they be less forthcoming with tax-exemptions to foreign investors. We find, however, that it is not a zero-sum game, if Ican use the jargon of the trade...
...supported by a Ford Foundation grant which will expire in two years, but most work is financed by government and foundation grants to individual professors or research associates. Sometimes the individual has his grants assigned to the Center for "administrative convenience," according to Raymond Vernon, Professor of International Trade and Investment at the Business School and Acting Director of the Center from...
...were unwilling to put up with the delays, and many Mexicans, outraged at being searched "to the skin," joined a boycott against nearby U.S. cities. Officials in hard-hit San Diego were worried that without grass, kids would turn to hard drugs. In towns on the Mexican side, where trade was off 40% to 75%, businessmen were near panic. The gate evaporated at Tijuana's Agua Caliente race track, and occupancy rates at Ensenada resort hotels fell to a ridiculous 5%. Effects were felt as far south as Mexico City, where Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz publicly denounced Washington...
...tomato sauce and seven other tinned seafoods-but no bread or crackers to go with them. The Soviet sales luncheon has become increasingly familiar in Southeast Asia, where the Russians are pressing an economic offensive. This week they will wind up their most ambitious effort, a three-week trade fair in Kuala Lumpur. Elsewhere, the Russians have recently formed a joint shipping company with businessmen in Singapore, made trade overtures to the Philippines, welcomed a Thai trade delegation in Moscow and expanded Aeroflot plane service in many parts of Asia...
...Russians, a chance to increase their influence as the British and U.S. military presence recedes. The Soviet drive also stems from Leonid Brezhnev's call last June for a new Asian security arrangement aimed against the Chinese, and from Russia's pressing need to overcome a serious trade deficit with some Southeast Asian countries. Trouble is, the Southeast Asian market is highly competitive and tough to crack-and Moscow is accustomed to government-to-government deals. When forced to compete on the open market, Ivan can be a terrible salesman...