Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When you ask why, he explains that your limit is the same at all the stores, which, by the way, have agreed to charge the same prices for all their books. Meanwhile, the bookstores trade information about customers' accounts with each other, and the clerks make money trading the data...
...approaches, there is fear that Western Europe will erect protectionist ramparts to shelter its rich new market. Dependent on global trade for their prosperity, most Europeans recognize the need to prevent such an outcome. But even if Western Europe remains open for business, the Continent's growing stature is bound to produce further strains in its relationship with...
...single marketplace in which goods, services and workers can circulate freely, and where competition can reward efficient enterprise. In 1957 the E.C.'s founding treaty promised just such a common market, but although member states dismantled intra-Community tariff barriers, they retained a bewildering barrage of regulations to restrict trade and curb competition. Although Western Europe has no immediate plans to create a common currency, E.C. countries have already made significant progress toward their goal of unstitching the area's patchwork quilt of protected national markets...
...revitalized European Community, nonmembers like Austria and Norway are considering joining the club, and even neutral Switzerland is worried about being left standing on the platform as the 1992 train pulls out of the station. East European countries are cozying up to the Community via bilateral trade and aid deals while Moscow watches with envious desire. "What is going on in Western Europe is a serious challenge for us," says Vitali Zhurkin, director of the Soviet Academy of Science's recently created Institute for Europe. "It is a positive process that shows us perestroika should be moving quicker...
FAIRPORT CONVENTION: RED & GOLD (Rough Trade). When this British group started up in the late '60s, their music was called "folk rock." Two decades on, the phrase is shopworn, but the band's music -- graced by some ghosts of ancient traditional melody -- is as splendid and mysterious as ever...