Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round-faced shock-haired man rose 40 ft. away, pointed a pistol at Nasser and began firing carefully and evenly. Eight shots rang out, and resounded all over Egypt by radio. A glass lamp shattered overhead and showered shards of glass; the left breast of Nasser's uniform grew dark with a stain that looked like blood, but still Nasser stood, thrusting aside friendly hands that tried to pull him down out of danger. Then he stepped back to the microphone and in a hoarse voice, wild and throbbing, screamed again and again: "Oh, free men, let everybody stay...
Despite the impetus GATT gave to lowering tariffs and to making trade policy uniform, weaknesses have become apparent. In the U.S., for example, GATT functions only as an executives agreement, along with reciprocal trade. In addition, when tariff disputes arose. GATT is more effective as a forum than as an agency with binding powers. Such flaws are causing many nations at the present meeting to aim for a stronger agreement backed by a permanent organization. This agency would have power to review action of individual governments which discriminate in their trade policies and evade the "most favored nation" clause...
...achieve sweeping and uniform tariff reductions, the United States should support the strengthening of GATT. With the decline in U.S. foreign aid, European and Asian economies desperately need more trade, especially if this country continues to discourage trade with the Soviet bloc. The American economy, too, needs the stimulus to production that increased foreign trade would bring. Since both American economy and American security are bound so tightly with the economies of all other nations, bi-lateral agreements are not most effective, because, just as in disarmament, it is impossible for one or two nations to succeed alone...
...were told how the applicants ranked--tentatively accepted, undecided, or rejected, and the student could, accordingly, apply elsewhere. A more sensible solution, it seems, would be to take the pressure off the applicant as soon as possible by immediately admitting acceptable students. To do this, however, would require a uniform reply date among colleges. An applicant to Princeton, for example, otherwise might not accept admission there before hearing from Harvard or Yale...
...actor named Al Hodge, who plays Captain Video, was on hand to defend himself. Wearing a business suit instead of a space uniform, firm-jawed Hodge (consistently addressed by the investigators as "Captain") insisted that his program "was meticulous to the point of not even using the word 'kill.' " His Video Rangers use "stun guns" that are not even painful, and captured villains are brainwashed at a "rehabilitation center" rather than dispatched to graveyards. Questioned by Senator Hendrickson about the good taste of tromping on an enemy's hands, Captain Video explained that it would only...