Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ulrich is currently working on a new book about work and labor in rural New England in relation to international trade, based on artifacts as well as diaries and letters...
Burns says that the city currently does a thriving trade in witch-related T-shirts and other paraphernalia and that tourists are especially interested in this period of the town's history...
...Harvard, no one has been able to dominate the pizza trade, but the battle lines have been drawn--Pinocchio's and Tommy's are the field's clear superpowers. They've each found a niche within the pizza world to call their own, and it's not hard to figure out why. I've spent entire pockets of procrastination in fruitless attempts to declare an outright preference: one has tomato-basil Sicilian slices, the other, calzones and the sesame-seed edge. One has the atmosphere of an authentic Italian pizzeria, the other, the feel of the quaint college town...
...investing in Treasuries, China is helping keep our interest rates low. On the other hand, money talks, and the Chinese might get louder when it comes to settling touchy disputes on trade--or Taiwan. Much louder. Last week Washington reported that America's trade deficit with China jumped to an all-time high in 1996 to $39.5 billion, a gap expected to widen, giving the Chinese yet another fistful of dollars with which to go shopping for U.S. bonds...
...another onto the overhead projector to show figures from the latest European Union study on global competitiveness. "Pitiful," he snaps at one slide on Europe's low investment in Southeast Asia. "We are clearly losing ground," he says, slapping down a chart on the dwindling European share of world trade. When he finishes his downbeat presentation at the E.U. headquarters in Brussels, a reporter asks if he has any fresh proposals to solve the problems. "We don't need any more bright ideas. There are lots of them around," he replies. "In business, success is 5% strategy, 95% execution...