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Israel, however, will be permitted to retain full tariffs on many industrial imports from the Common Market until 1977. After that, tariffs will be gradually reduced, but some duties may last until 1989, by which time the Israeli economy will supposedly be able to withstand the full rigors of international competition-a sort of commercial bar mitzvah. Israel has been allowed favorable treatment in the early stages of the pact because it now imports far more from the EEC than it exports. In 1974 it bought $2 billion worth of Common Market goods, such as automobiles and heavy machinery, nearly...
Wall Street is in good shape to withstand the intensified competition. Helped by heavy trading volume, member firms of the N.Y.S.E. scored a record profit of $287.9 million in the first quarter. And the Dow Jones industrial average, spurred partly by traders' hopes that new rivalry on commissions would bring more small buyers back into the market, spurted 36 points last week, to close at an eleven-month high...
...wasn't until months later, when staff members granted a new editor emergency powers to fire people, that one of the men was fired. He left without protest, but those who argue the Helen-of-Troy theory say the damage in bitterness was more than the paper could withstand in its infancy. Because of the triangle, says Southwick. "I don't think the paper was ever give a chance...
Nozick's book comes at a crucial time. America's welfare warfare state mixed economy is failing. No economy can long withstand rapidly alternating runaway inflation and depression, let alone both together. With the present situation intolerable, a consensus is developing that change in needed. But there is no consensus on what we should be changing...
...snow-covered slopes. The heaviest fighting yet in a rebellion that has dragged on for nearly two decades was startling but expectable. Iraq was finally able to move against the Kurds after patching up relations with Iran, which for years had provided the Kurds with the means to withstand Baghdad's most determined attempts to dislodge them...