Multinational Corporations: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 481 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 293 - But merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
الصفحة 285 - The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to he adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention.
الصفحة 296 - The basic asymmetry between multinational enterprises and national governments may be tolerable up to a point, but beyond that point there is a need to reestablish balance.
الصفحة 448 - This greatest industrial power in the world's history is in danger of becoming nothing more than a nation of hamburger stands ... a country stripped of industrial capacity and meaningful work ... a service economy ... a nation of citizens busily buying and selling cheeseburgers and root beer floats.
الصفحة 341 - Carrying multinationallsm to its logical extreme, a corporation will concentrate its production in the area where costs are lowest and build up Its sales where the market Is most lucrative. Thus, some US electronics manufacturers are using plants in the Far East to make components for equipment sold In the US market and the apparel industry is, for the first time, hinting at farming out some of its production.
الصفحة 283 - The Members recognize that measures relating to employment must take fully Into account the rights of workers under inter-Governmental declarations, conventions and agreements. They recognize that all countries have a common interest in the achievement and maintenance of fair labour standards related to productivity, and thus in the improvement of wages and working conditions as productivity may permit.
الصفحة 182 - The liberalization of United States and Canadian automotive trade in respect of tariff barriers and other factors tending to impede it, with a view to enabling the industries of both countries to participate on a fair and equitable basis in the expanding total market of the two...
الصفحة 454 - I have long dreamed of buying an island owned by no nation, and of establishing the world headquarters of the Dow company on the truly neutral ground of such an island, beholden to no nation or society.
الصفحة 15 - My testimony would not be complete without a brief discussion of some of the alternative international economic proposals to be considered by this committee.
الصفحة 336 - Anyone who is naive enough to believe that the Japanese or British governments permit foreigners to license their processes as freely as the US does ours has simply never tried to negotiate these transactions." Translate the losses being suffered in aerospace into all the other industries in America in terms of thousands of jobs and loss of technology and you can begin to comprehend the massive change that is overwhelming this country. US LABOR COSTS LOW, PRODUCTIVITY REMAINS HIGH One of the most...