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The recently unveiled Kennedy moves to control the international textile market can be significant for American businessmen in many lines. | control | {
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Important aspects of the Kennedy textile plans are these : | are | {
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An international conference of the big textile-importing and textile-exporting countries will be called shortly by President Kennedy. | called | {
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Chief aims of the proposed conference are worth noting. | are | {
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The U. S. will try to get agreement among the industrialized countries to take more textile imports from the less-developed countries over the years. | try | {
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The U. S. will try to get agreement among the industrialized countries to take more textile imports from the less-developed countries over the years. | get | {
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The U. S. will try to get agreement among the industrialized countries to take more textile imports from the less-developed countries over the years. | take | {
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Point is that developing countries often build up a textile industry first, need encouragement to get on their feet. | is | {
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If they have trouble exporting, international bill for their support will grow larger than it otherwise would. | have | {
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Idea is to let these countries earn their way as much as possible. | is | {
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At the same time, another purpose of the conference will be to get certain low-wage countries to control textile exports - especially dumping of specific products - to high-wage textile-producing countries. | be | {
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At the same time, another purpose of the conference will be to get certain low-wage countries to control textile exports - especially dumping of specific products - to high-wage textile-producing countries. | control | {
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Japan, since 1957, has been `` voluntarily '' curbing exports of textiles to the U. S.. | curbing | {
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None of these countries is happy with these arrangements. | is | {
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Hong Kong interests loudly protest limiting their exports to Britain, while Spanish and Portuguese textiles pour into British market unrestrictedly. | protest | {
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Hong Kong interests loudly protest limiting their exports to Britain, while Spanish and Portuguese textiles pour into British market unrestrictedly. | pour | {
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The Indians and Pakistanis are chafing under similar restrictions on the British market for similar reasons. | chafing | {
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The Kennedy hope is that, at the conference or through bilateral talks, the low-wage textile-producing countries in Asia and Europe will see that `` dumping '' practices cause friction all around and may result in import quotas. | is | {
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The Kennedy hope is that, at the conference or through bilateral talks, the low-wage textile-producing countries in Asia and Europe will see that `` dumping '' practices cause friction all around and may result in import quotas. | see | {
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The Kennedy hope is that, at the conference or through bilateral talks, the low-wage textile-producing countries in Asia and Europe will see that `` dumping '' practices cause friction all around and may result in import quotas. | cause | {
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Gradual, controlled expansion of the world 's textile trade is what President Kennedy wants. | is | {
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Gradual, controlled expansion of the world 's textile trade is what President Kennedy wants. | wants | {
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This may point the way toward international stabilization agreements in other products. | point the way | {
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It 's an important clue to Washington thinking. | 's | {
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Note, too, that the Kennedy textile plan looks toward modernization or shrinkage of the U. S. textile industry. | Note | {
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In veiled terms, that 's what the Kennedy Administration is saying to the American textile industry. | 's | {
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In veiled terms, that 's what the Kennedy Administration is saying to the American textile industry. | saying | {
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Special depreciation on new textile machinery may be allowed. | allowed | {
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Government research will look into new products and methods. | look into | {
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Import quotas are n't ruled out where the national interest is involved. | ruled out | {
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But the Kennedy Administration does n't favor import quotas. | favor | {
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Rather, they are impressed with the British Government 's success in forcing - and helping - the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products. | are | {
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Virginia coal, delivered by ship in Wales, will be about $ 2.80 a ton cheaper than Welsh coal delivered by rail from nearby mines. | delivered | {
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Virginia coal, delivered by ship in Wales, will be about $ 2.80 a ton cheaper than Welsh coal delivered by rail from nearby mines. | delivered | {
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U. S. coal is cheap, despite high wages, because of widespread mechanization of mines, wide coal seams, attactive rates on ocean freight. | is | {
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Many of the coal seams in the nationalized British mines are twisting, narrow and very deep. | are | {
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Welsh coal miners, Communist-led, are up in arms at the suggestion that the steel company bring in American coal. | are | {
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They threaten to strike. | threaten | {
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They threaten to strike. | strike | {
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The British Government will have to decide whether to let U. S. coal in. | decide | {
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The British Government will have to decide whether to let U. S. coal in. | let | {
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The British coal industry is unprofitable, has large coal stocks it can n't sell. | sell | {
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When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean. | say | {
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When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean. | permit | {
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When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean. | justify | {
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When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean. | know | {
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When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean. | mean | {
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Of course, in prudential calculation, in balancing the good directly intended and done against the evil unintended and indirectly done, no greater precision can be forthcoming than the subject allows. | intended | {
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Of course, in prudential calculation, in balancing the good directly intended and done against the evil unintended and indirectly done, no greater precision can be forthcoming than the subject allows. | done | {
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Of course, in prudential calculation, in balancing the good directly intended and done against the evil unintended and indirectly done, no greater precision can be forthcoming than the subject allows. | allows | {
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Yet it seems clear that there can be no good sufficiently great, or evil repelled sufficiently grave, to warrant the destruction of mankind by man 's own action. | seems | {
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