Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Robert Frost's home town should look like, You find little more than a post office, a phone booth and a combination gas station and general store dealing in two-for-a-penny-candy, dusty bottles of aspirin, applejack, Vermont cheese (kept under the moldy wooden bowl, and cheap), woolen socks, fishing tackle, and peanuts from a chipped enamel peanut roaster apparently left over from the Big-Top Circus days...
Miyazawa will offer a one-year freeze, at 1969 levels, on imports of 20 categories of textiles, including woolen suits and sweaters and synthetic dresses and blouses. After that, the two countries would try negotiating again, through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Miyazawa's plan is close to one proposed in March by PepsiCo President Donald Kendall, who headed a high-level delegation of U.S. businessmen in talks with Japanese industrialists and government officials. The Kendall plan was considered negotiable by diplomats of both governments, but was summarily rejected by both textile industries. Now the Japanese appear...