Word: effected
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Listened to at least one question (usually only one), but refused to answer any because "all polls are rigged," or something to that effect...
...July, when the Outer Seven put into effect its first mutual 20% tariff reduction, the effect on Finnish trade was instant and disastrous. In Britain, Finland's best market, Finnish lumber and paper exporters ran into big trouble from Swedish and Norwegian competition, had to drop prices by as much as $5.60 a ton. Kekkonen, never very popular, was soon in bad political trouble. Last week Nikita Khrushchev decided the time had come to drop in and give him a hand...
...foreign entrepreneur, after striking a bargain for some surplus airplane parts originally given to the Iranian Air Force by the U.S., resignedly paid off the colonels concerned only to have his loaded trucks held up at the gate by a young captain of the guard who inquired with pointed effect, "Don't you think captains are as good as colonels?" "They aren't even subtle about it," says one prosperous contractor. "We all regard it as merely part of the deal. Frequently, we negotiate to come to terms. But dealing with royalty, for example, remains pretty much...
Computer Gives Up. There, late one night four weeks ago. Dr. Linsley was studying a pile of computer reports from Kirtland. He came to the Dec. 3 shower. The report started like many others, but toward the end the computer wrote in effect: "I give up." Linsley said to his wife, "I see something crazy," and went to work with his slide rule. Half an hour later he telephoned his colleague, Dr. Livio Scarsi: "I think we may have something...
Dark Side. The drop in inventories is a foreboding sign to pessimists. For one, companies that are using their shelf stock to meet sales will eventually have to replenish their stock. But what pleased Government economists was the inventory decline's minor effect on the economy. Although inventory retrenchment has been going on for months, the economy has been able to absorb the loss without any great damage. The question now was how long the inventory decline would continue...