Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lose his protégé, Brandt could hardly object to Schütz's return to Berlin. Schütz quickly made it clear that he, has little faith in Albertz's plan to rebuild West Berlin prosperity by turning the city into a center for trade and cultural exchange between East and West. Not that he is against "building bridges," said Schütz, but he is unwilling to pay the price the Communists demand for their cooperation. The East Germans want West Berlin turned into a "Free City" without ties to West Germany and without...
...they are. Manhattan's Hair Design Associates, on St. Mark's Place, caters to both men and women, although once the clients have been swaddled up to their necks in hair cloths it is sometimes difficult to tell. These lush and costly emporiums attract a surprisingly conservative trade. Roger, a hair stylist on East 58th Street in New York City, estimates that 75% of his customers are doctors, lawyers and businessmen...
Five months ago, after the U.S. and 52 other nations concluded the Kennedy Round and agreed on wide-ranging tariff cuts, the pact was hailed as a historic step forward in world trade. Yet last week the U.S. verged on a backward march. Pending in the Senate were seven bills-the central one pompously called "the Orderly Trade Act of 1967"-that would establish stricter quotas on imports ranging from steel to strawberries, from textiles to goat meat. If enacted, the bills would set limits on $12 billion worth, or 50%, of total U.S. imports. Liberalized-trade advocates compared...
Vortex of Battle. The Senate is the vortex of the trade battle because it must ratify agreements on grains and chemicals before the Kennedy Round tariff cuts can be implemented. Aware of this, a high-tariff bloc, concerned over competition from rising imports, got congressional attention first with measures designed to bypass the Round's tariff cuts, averaging 35%, with a system of stricter quotas on goods allowed into...
...that President Johnson would be loath to veto the social security provisions. Jubilantly, Oscar R. Strackbein, who as chairman of the Nationwide Committee for Import-Export Policy is the chief lobbyist for high tariffs and has been around Washington longer than many a legislator, predicted that this time trade restrictions would be adopted...