Word: tradings
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Perhaps the source of this introspection is a retreat from the grave but somewhat intangible problems that are our main threat these days. Our enemies have no faces any more. Budget and trade deficits, atmospheric pollution, or AIDS, are all soluble, but they are complex and they grow upon us almost invisibly. Even our main human antagonists can no longer be named or placed. They are terrorists, whose actions strike us without warning...
...Yeah, but trading for the Fed is a little different. You've got all the cards when you trade for the Fed. But I easily could have gone to law school. My indecision was resolved for me by getting a larger fellowship at what is now the Kennedy School ((of Government at Harvard)). And I often thought that if I'd gone to law school, I would have been representing a bunch of banks before the Federal Reserve Board in recent years instead of the opposite...
Home automation took a major step forward last week, when the Electronic Industries Association/Consumer Electronics Group -- a trade organization that includes such giants as Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Tandy, Mitsubishi and RCA -- unveiled a new wiring standard called the Consumer Electronics Bus, or CEBus. CEBus will enable microprocessor-equipped appliances built by one company to communicate with those built by any other. In the first public demonstration, at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, enthusiastic manufacturers showed off a prototype CEBus-controlled home of the future packed with high-tech features. When a telephone rings in a CEBus home...
...trade officials contend that the E.C. ban is motivated in large part by protectionism, since European beef producers are raising more cattle than they can sell locally or abroad. E.C. nations added 140,000 tons of excess beef to meat-locker stockpiles last year, bringing the total surplus to more than 723,000 tons, or nearly two months of European consumption...
...trade battle escalates, it will hurt other agricultural producers, from dairy farmers in Denmark to nut growers in California's Central Valley. Trade officials on both continents are worried that the transatlantic range war has got out of hand, but so far no one is budging on the beef issue. The E.C. insists that no compromise is possible unless the U.S. accepts the hormone ban. And from the St. Paul stockyards to the vast feedlots of the Southwest, them's fightin' words...