Word: tvs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fearing a protectionist backlash, and pressured by the U.S., the Japanese government in April issued an "administrative guidance" calling on producers of steel, TVs, autos, watches and cameras to try to hold exports to or below 1977 levels. So far, the plan has not been working. Exports to the American market alone jumped by 35% in May. Japan's Economic Planning Agency conceded that the nation will ship out $23 billion more in goods than it will bring in this year, and in the process pile up a whopping $9.5 billion surplus with...
...military-camp atmosphere of Morris High is extreme. But increasingly, schools from Memphis to Los Angeles are adopting similar methods-as well as closed-circuit TVs, guards, emergency phones in the classrooms-to combat a violence that was once undreamed of. Last year alone, Memphis reported 680 assaults, 144 of them directed against teachers or administrators. Miami's Dade County registered a shocking 1,153 attacks, and in Boston schools there were 155 assaults on teachers alone. In high-crime New York City, students erupted in 2,420 attacks, half of them against teachers. In Chicago the assault rate...
...fail to acknowledge that oil imports are increasing largely because the U.S., alone among major industrial nations, is pursuing a broad-based program of economic expansion from which everyone else is benefiting. Japan, for example, has kept its factories humming despite slow domestic economic growth, mostly by selling cars, TVs, steel and other products to the U.S. Consequently Japan is running an $8.5 billion trade surplus with the U.S., drawing American protests against the Japanese trade barriers that keep U.S. and other imports...
...Nixon and Ford Administrations, which had their own economic troubles with Japan, were generally satisfied with stopgap Japanese restrictions on exports to the U.S. The Carter Administration, to its credit, is taking a different line. Although they have negotiated an "orderly marketing agreement" limiting sales of Japanese color TVs in the U.S., the President and his aides are concentrating not on buying less from Japan but on selling more to it. Strauss wants the Japanese to abolish quotas on agricultural goods and lower tariffs on myriad manufactured products. Says he: "Right now we're getting the worst...
...heels. We fight our way into the kitchen, aided by the housekeeper, who turns out to be the lady who rescued us earlier in the morning. The grandfather is sitting at a table at one end of the room watching Thanksgiving parades on one of a dozen color TVs in the house. He invites us to join him. The dogs, meanwhile, are about to be fed. On an enormous expanse of counter the housekeeper has arranged an awesome array of king-size doggie dishes each of which she proceeds to load with at least two cans of Alpo. The dogs...