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...deal with the substance of issues but with how to make things work. As a domestic political troubleshooter, he is respected by Democrats for pulling their party together after the McGovern debacle of 1972. That bravura performance has been repeated in his current assignment as special representative for trade negotiations, where his formidable jawboning powers have maintained the momentum of discussions that could break down under the sheer weight of detail. Strauss says candidly of his new job: "This is a different kind of undertaking for me. The reason I've been good in Washington-if I have been...
Moreover, Strauss was in Cairo in April with a U.S. trade delegation and apparently impressed President Sadat by telling him that the obfuscation of the Egyptian bureaucracy was an obstacle to U.S. corporate investment in his country...
PEKING--U.S. Trade Ambassador Robert Strauss said yesterday he has given Chinese representatives three days to decide on the U.S. terms for a textile agreement, but he called chances of settlement "iffy...
Pizzorno has written several books and recently edited a collection of essays about trade unions in western Europe since 1968 called, "Resergence of Class Conflict in Western Societies...
...backgrounds, the characters are mere outlines. Walter Blackett, head of Blackett and Webb, the firm whose farflung enterprises frame most of the novel's action, is a buccaneer abroad and a fond family man at home. Yet Blackett is such a compleat capitalist that he is willing to trade his daughter like a commodity in order to pump up the profits. His opposite is young Matthew Webb, a bumbling idealist who despises colonialism but offers no better alternative than a vague new brotherhood...