Word: limitations
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Richard G. Stearns, chief of delegate selection for the Kennedy for President Committee, suggested the repeal of campaign financing laws that limit a candidate's ability to raise and spend funds. He said that because of the high price of advertising, such laws prevent candidates from adequately communicating their positions. "We make the news media the most powerful actor," he added...
...report that they are studying the possibility of opening U.S. plants. They have said that often before. Complained Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto Workers: "Promises, promises, promises, but no action. Our efforts at diplomacy are over. Now is the time to take off our gloves. They must limit exports or build over here." Echoed Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor Co.: "I'm tired of this lip service about 'investigating the possibility.' You can study something to death. At some point, they must make up their minds...
...some time, Honda's chiefs have been considering a U.S. plant. Unlike Toyota and Nissan, Honda has stretched its existing production capacity to the limit. Hence expansion makes sense, whether in Japan or overseas. Also, Honda sends 42.9% of its output to the U.S.; Toyota sends 44.6% and Nissan 43.9%. Honda has much to lose if the U.S., which imposes a rather modest 3% tariff on imported cars, raises higher barriers or otherwise seeks to restrain imports, as Britain, France and Italy have done over the past several years. Admits Kawashima: "I would be less than candid...
...give the industry time to digest the new moves, Washington suspended all trading in grain futures for two days; never in peacetime had such a move been necessary (see box). When the market did open, grain prices fell as much as the daily limit permitted, but by the weekend they appeared to be stabilizing. Still, Carter's critics charged that the embargo would severely damage the U.S. balance of trade, and that his efforts to soften the blow would seriously increase the inflationary budget deficit...
...however, to the traders and speculators who wheel and deal on the floors of the commodity exchanges of the Midwest, where most of the nation's grain trading takes place. For the high rollers in the mysterious world of wheat and corn futures, soybean stop orders and daily limit moves, commodities are the stuff of fast fortunes...