Word: traded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fraser said free trade in the auto industry did not worry him. "American Auto companies have refused to compete in that market (for small cars). I refuse to believe the German and Japanese workers can produce a better car than...
...Detroit two weeks ago, Fraser convened a meeting of trade union, civil rights, community organizing and political groups to discuss a program to counter what he sees as a resurgence of right-wing activism...
...Munchkin land. This turns out to be the old New York World's Fair Pavilion at Flushing Meadow, where the Wicked Witch of the East has turned hundreds of juvenile spray-paint vandals into graffiti figures. The yellow brick road leads across the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center, where Richard Pryor reigns as the Wiz. But before Dorothy gets there, she meets a roarious but cowardly lion (Ted Ross) and a marvelous scarecrow (Michael Jackson), hung up on his pole and tormented by rascally birds. Jackson sings a piteous lament, to the effect that...
...chains put new zip into a fusty trade...
Despite these distractions, businessmen find tune for many formal talks and weighty pronouncements. At various closed-door working sessions this time, members debated policy with Federal Reserve Chairman William Miller, Budget Director James Mclntyre, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps, Presidential Trade-and-Inflation Aide Robert Strauss, CIA Chief Stansfield Turner and Economist Alan Greenspan...