Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision to delay, Washington this week will be forced to end all aid to Peru as well as sugar purchases at preferential prices. The political consequences of such action are cloudy, but the economic effects are clear. Peru would lose at least $50 million a year in U.S. trade...
...been pumping oil out of Peruvian soil since 1924. Last October, only six days after they had overthrown President Fernando Belaúnde, Peru's new military masters seized IPC's property. Under the 1962 Hickenlooper Amendment, the U.S. is obliged to halt foreign aid and preferential-trade deals with any country that expropriates American property without making adequate compensation. Under Hickenlooper, the cutoff must take place six months after the seizure unless "meaningful" negotiations are in progress toward a settlement...
Tribal elders were there because they wanted to learn the history of their Navaho ancestors. Others wanted to learn a trade. Many wanted further academic study toward a degree at a four-year college. But all had a particular pride in the first institution of higher education on any Indian reservation in the country...
Defense Testimony. LTV vowed to defend itself vigorously. Its officers dismiss concern about reciprocal trading by noting that business among LTV's ten subsidiaries has traditionally amounted to less than 1% of company sales. As for the supposed dangers of economic concentration, no one has yet proved that industrial bigness necessarily means badness. On the contrary, the U.S. has prospered in world trade precisely because of the relatively large size and resources of its companies. The takeover of Jones & Laughlin by an aggressive outsider like Jim Ling could prove something of a welcome stimulus to the clubby steel manufacturers...
...Jeoffrey. He had enduring friends, including Tennyson and a man called Chichester Fortescue, a real name that sounds like a Lear invention. Lear's peregrinations over 30 years ranged from Calais to the coast of Coromandel, a course which enabled him to work at his art-essentially the trade of providing souvenirs of the Grand Tour to a pre-Leica...