Word: trades
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Despite his Herald Tribune disaster,.Whitney never got completely out of publishing. His corporation has long owned three other publications: Parade, a newspaper Sunday supplement; Harvest Years, a monthly for the retired; and Interior Design, a trade journal for interior decorators. Whitney Communications is also the controlling stockholder in the Paris-based International Herald Tribune...
TURNING away from the fitful franc for a moment, the International Monetary Fund last week reported some sanguine statistics about world trade. For the first time, nations are selling goods and services to each other at a rate of more than $200 billion a year. The flow reached $209 billion in this year's third quarter, an increase of 8% in the past twelve months. Altogether, the industrial nations increased their exports by 116% in the past decade...
...most importantly, the CEP proposal would perpetuate a system which allows the U.S. military establishment to trade on Harvard's name and prestige in its recruitment efforts. Student opposition to Harvard's present arrangement with ROTC goes much deeper than considerations of academic propriety. The Faculty cannot end the ROTC controversy by opting for a slightly modified status quo. It should not accept the CEP resolution...
...mini-revolution of last May had eaten up a sizable share of France's gold reserves, as enormous amounts of consumer goods had to be imported, but it had by no means exhausted them. Relative to France's GNP or her international trade, they were still adequate in comparison with those of other nations, even the U.S. and other western European nations. True, the wage increases conceded last spring had triggered an eleven per cent increase in prices that would certainly affect France's balance of payments. But it was far from obvious that it would plunge France, consistently...
...true that the lack of confidence in the franc can be traced directly to the May upheaval. It brought about a major outflow of gold, and the large pay increases demanded--and received--were the immediate cause of a cost increase bound to weaken France's international trade position. That line of reasoning can easily conclude in an indictment of French students and workers...