Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tempers flared during last week's NSC meeting, which lasted more than two hours. U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills argued vehemently that Bush should scrap the agreement in favor of persuading the Japanese to buy standard F-16s, minus the instructions for putting their most sensitive components together. On the other side, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Secretary of State James Baker contended that the agreement should proceed unchanged. But the lack of a Defense Secretary to argue the Pentagon's side handicapped the pro-FSX forces. Covering the middle ground, Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher thought he could abide...
...lovers begin to feel the pinch. This is, after all, the city synonymous with freeways, drag races and even the drive- through church. As a former resident puts it, "In L.A. the first question is not What do you do? but What do you drive?" Will Angelenos really trade their Ferraris for car pools and their fuel-injected Chevy V-8s for electric roadsters? That remains to be seen. "We're for cleaner air, for damn sure," says Robert Harnar, a public relations executive at Ford. "But the old adage is that people in L.A. want buses and mass transit...
...economy sent a calming signal last week but abruptly followed it with a disturbing one. First the Government said the stubborn U.S. trade deficit narrowed in January to $9.5 billion, for a $1.5 billion decline from December. Economists were particularly heartened because imports fell nearly 7%, indicating that the economy was cooling off and inflation was not getting out of hand...
...acknowledged Israel's right to exist while continuing to support Arab uprisings in the West Bank and Gaza. But last week, smack in the middle of a visit to Washington by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens, Secretary of State James Baker unveiled a series of admittedly "small" confidence-building trade-offs designed to get the antagonists talking. The Palestinians are being asked to moderate the intifadeh in exchange for a looser Israeli grip on the occupied territories...
Prior to working for the World Trade Center, Glynn was a deputy welfare commissioner credited with creating the state's Employment and Training Program...