Word: weil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herbert Weil Kiel, West Germany...
...result is that, to assure loyalty, the President has taken more control over agency appointments. For example, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps wanted to promote Frank Weil to be her under secretary, but was told to find someone who was a stronger supporter of Carter. Weil lined up endorsements from several Senators and Cabinet members, but the President held firm...
...retirement hotel, are spunky individualists eager to savor the last drops of life. True, there is a lady (Grace Carney) who stays glued to the TV set, but that gives her life the dimension of constant fantasy. True, there is someone who dies (offstage), a tie salesman (Robert Weil), but only after he achieves his desire to leave something behind by completing a bench in the craft shop...
American businessmen and some Government officials take a different view. Some argue that the Japanese language constitutes a trade barrier. Assistant Commerce Secretary Frank Weil agrees that the technical quotas and tariff restrictions have now been largely dismantled and that "there are really few restrictions on manufactured goods." But, he adds, they have been replaced by something different: "a mentality on the part of the average Japanese businessman that says 'I've been told for a hundred years I shouldn't import. I can make it here.' It's a sort of conditioned reflex." Says...
...hidden barrier, Weil agrees, is "the gigantic Japanese bureaucracy, with its bias against foreign manufactured goods." This shows itself in many ways. Government agencies like the railways and telegraph and telegram systems, which spend roughly $52 billion a year, have been under orders to "buy national," and although this restriction has been eased in recent months, old habits die hard and few foreign orders have been placed. And when the government does not want to buy foreign, wholesalers and industrial buyers steer clear of imports as well. At the same time, customs officers have been known to effectively shut...