Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is what they call in the trade a "black week," one of four each year (others: Dec. 18-24, April 17-23, June 19-25) when the viewing public is busy elsewhere, when the Nielsen people don't bother with audience ratings, and when the competing networks hold back most of their big shows. Witness...
...Guards harassed an Italian trade official at a street "trial" after the port of Genoa had refused to allow a Chi nese freighter to unload until it lowered political banners extolling Mao. - Thousands of Maoists brawled among themselves, ignoring the theme of the rally for which they had gathered-"to end demonstrations and clashes...
...called "The Armed Citizen," which reports the derring-do of shopkeepers and housewives who have gunned down intruders. "Of course, the column omits stories of innocent people who are killed in these encounters," notes Carl Bakal, author of The Right to Bear Arms, a book critical of the gun trade...
...industry is strong and has always thrived in international competition. Anyway, the new rates of duty in the Kennedy Round agreement provide a comfortable level of tariff protection, according to most impartial economists. And the level of protection is well above the other major chemical-producing countries. Still Congressional trade expansionists will never convince their fellow chemical protectionists, and the passage of an ASP repeal motion is questionable...
What it boils down to is one major hassle over the ASP, and a defeat here would set back the whole trend toward more international trade. As Senator Jacob Javits put it, "Unless forces favoring trade liberalization are ready to go into battle in defense of the principle of trade liberalization on every one of these issues, much that has been gained over the past four years of the Kennedy Round could easily be lost. And let's not kid ourselves, unless we have the full support of the President the chances of resisting self-interest and protectionist forces will...