Word: trades
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OBSOLETE COMMUNISM: THE LEFT-WING ALTERNATIVE, by Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit. Radical leader "Danny the Red" Cohn-Bendit and his brother analyze last year's "days of May" student-worker uprising in France, blaming its failure on lack of support from the French Communist Party and leftist trade unions...
Shrinking Trade. The border tensions reflect the hostility and fear that characterize current Sino-Soviet relations. Frail diplomatic links still exist, though neither nation now maintains an ambassador in the other's capital. Party relations have been virtually nonexistent since 1963. Some trade still continues, but a recent Soviet survey reports that current two-way trade, estimated in 1967 to be $106 million, is less than 6% of 1961 levels. Given the steady disintegration of the once solid partnership of the two Communist giants, the frontier clashes-and last week's explosion-became inevitable...
Implacable Enemies. The French labor talks were the first since last May's nationwide riots. The earlier negotiations led to wage hikes averaging about 15% and touched off an inflationary spiral that has damaged the country's trade position and weakened confidence in the franc. As last week's labor talks approached, French workers complained that price increases have eaten into earlier wage gains, and insisted on new increases of 10% to 12%. Eventually, the union leaders trimmed their demand by half. But government negotiators argued that even a 6% raise would force the franc...
...sells for giddy prices. The magic name is Paul Revere, even though myth-shattering experts agree that Revere was no better than other Boston silversmiths of his day. A three-piece Revere tea set was sold for $70,000 last year, up from about the $30,000 it was traded for only five years earlier. Says Kevin Tierney, 26, the sharp-eyed Irish appraiser that Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries imported a year ago to smarten up its silver department: "You've no idea what that ride has done for Revere's trade...
...usually complain about too much federal interference, are pleading for Government help in combatting their onslaught. The chances are that they will get it; the Government has lately begun to act as if "conglomeritis" is a virulent disease. Half a dozen agencies?including the Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission?have begun investigations of the phenomenon. They are worried that the takeover companies may be creating too much concentration of economic power, that some of them have unsound financing and inadequate management, and that they may tempt many shareholders into trading solid stocks...