Word: trades
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...former president of the business school club to join with him and a New Jersey school superintendent in a project for fifth-grade students: using their math, geography and social studies knowledge, the students were to design alternative modes of transportation for New Jerseyans commuting to Manhattan's World Trade Center. It was but one of several Linking Industry Nature Knowledge & Systems projects Henn would initiate with the school superintendent...
During the Edo period, traders, moneylenders and shopkeepers were getting richer--the Tokugawas sealed Japan off from Western contacts but emphatically not from trade with other parts of Asia. They wanted conspicuous works of art and had the money to commission them. The demand for superfine objects, in which ordinary things like writing boxes or game boards were raised to the condition of art by means of exquisite decoration, was underwritten by the Japanese convention of giving gifts--as tribute, tokens of loyalty, signs of gratitude. The gift was a much more important social symbol in Japan than...
...impressive list of speakers has been assembled to teach the new representatives about everything from the federal budget to U.S. trade policy to relations between the White House and Congress...
...economy can take the pain, but not forever. The Commerce Department Wednesday announced an 8.1 percent surge in the nation's third-quarter trade deficit, to a record $61.3 billion -- a direct result of the Asian crisis that has left imports even cheaper while drying up the market for U.S. exports. "The booming trade deficit hurts the U.S. economy, but we have no alternative," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "The only way we can help Asia, and the world economy, rebound is to keep on importing their goods...
...North Korean government invited Eckert as well as other scholars and business executives from the U.S. to visit the free-trade zone in the northern part of the country this past April. The government plans to develop the province into an industrial zone...