Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more often, that "the immigrants are underskilled, indolent and unlikely to stay with the company." But the facts do not substantiate the last claim. The NCCI found that almost half the immigrants contracted had been in their present occupation for over three years, that 70 per cent had English trade qualifications, 44 per cent had passed their General Certificate of Education (the British equivalent of a high school diploma) and only 36 per cent had no qualifications. In short, the immigrant labor force, comprised of the more adventuresome and enterprising of the Commonwealth population, is probably better trained than...
...intensive, static exploration of personal and criminal relationships in a tiny California college, while the second is a novel in motion, sprawling over the whole Southwest and Mexico. But each of these divergent books works a similar splendid change on one of the shopworn tricks of the mystery trade, the revelation of guilt which confutes the reader's expectations. MacDonald transforms a mechanical gimmick into a genuinely horrifying reversal, in each case significant, completely unexpected, and carefully prepared. A reader finds such glimpses of horror throughout the Archer books, and just as often he feels the disturbing stab of empathy...
...weak link among the major characters is Boanerges, a demagogue who barges into the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade. James Shuman lacks the heartiness and the broad, bumbling arrogance that should make Boanerges funny. Without him to play against, the rest of the cabinet--Dale Gieringer, Roy Goldfinger, Brain McGunigle, and Prentice Claflin seems a bit hollow...
Despite such pleas, some sort of import quota restrictions seem likely to go through the Congress. And if that happens, the result can only cause incalculable damage to the cause of world trade, upon which the U.S. itself increasingly depends...
...growth rate during 1960-65. More than a fifth of the national income comes from exports, mostly to Western Europe. Slackening economies, particularly in Great Britain and West Germany, have cut Finland's export earnings. Meanwhile despite restrictive government policies and tight credit, imports remain high and the trade gap is running at $220 million for the second consecutive year. Unemployment has gone up (2.5% of the work force), production has fallen, and investment is at a virtual standstill. Forest products-including paper and pulp-which employ over 20% of the work force and account for two-thirds...