Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throughout the week), loved every minute of it, especially the dueling scenes. He was also happy the next day, when the political talks took a more favorable turn. This time the main interlocutor was Economist Kosygin, who apologized for Soviet failure to deliver on 1964's Franco-Russian trade agreements. Said Kosygin: "You are too expensive." Still, he offered to speed up the retarded orders, and his underlings announced only a few hours later that the French firm Chausson had received a large contract for auto bodies. The delegations rapidly agreed to establish scientific and technical cooperation (exchange...
When asked whether his successor, U. Alexis Johnson, had been chosen to please the Japanese conservative business interests, Reischauer replies that he doubts Ambassador Johnson will devote any more time to trade negotiation than he did. Reischauer, however, does admit that the conservatives and businessmen in Japan were deeply concerned when he was first appointed. He attributes this anxiety to the "head-in-the-clouds image as a professor" which preceded him. The Japanese businessman's relations with the intellectuals are even more tenuous than they are in this country, Reischauer says...
...companies that wish to merge. In the past eleven years, the high court has decided in favor of the Justice Department in 45 out of 50 antitrust cases; for seven years, it has not ruled once against the Government's other arm of antimerger enforcement, the Federal Trade Com mission. In that record, remarked Jus tice Potter Stewart recently, one consistency stands out: "The Government always wins...
...course, there are even more basic reasons for the travail of Britain's not-so-sterling currency. Low productivity and lackadaisical management have con tributed to a chronic trade deficit, which last month increased 14% from the April level. The British appear to care more about mod than money. Mourned Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan: "It seems we are talking to those who are deaf. In the end, the government cannot achieve success. Only the country can do that...
...Regrettably, though, the sneaky trick ending remains the sort of hokum that good writers have blue-penciled since O. Henry's heyday. Probably no one will object to the bottom dealing because Little Lady is handsome entertainment, mounted with leathery high spirits by a crew who would gladly trade their horses for a full house...