Word: coal
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...weaponry. But India's trade surplus with the Soviets has become a major irritant. Last year India exported $1.5 billion in goods, mostly manufactured products, to the U.S.S.R., while its Soviet imports came to only $1.4 billion. To help right the imbalance, New Delhi agreed to purchase newsprint, coking coal and other raw materials...
Hong Kong, which earlier this year banned imports of South Africa's gold Krugerrand coins, extended the sanctions to iron and steel. Imports of South African coal and diamonds, however, will still be allowed. Hong Kong also asked firms in the British crown colony to halt voluntarily new investments and loans to South Africa. Said Piers Jacobs, financial secretary of Hong Kong: "The measures would bring Hong Kong in line with those governments that are our principal trading partners...
...part of her campaign for more investment, she promised Japanese businessmen that her government would keep taxes low and let them repatriate profits. Aquino's pitches for increased Japanese aid met with some success. By the time she left Tokyo, she had obtained a $250 million loan for a coal-fired power station, part of a grant-and-aid package that Aquino optimistically predicted may total as much as $625 million. Aquino called the promises of economic assistance a "very clear message to the Filipino people that the Japanese government strongly supports the Aquino government...
...unusual promotion was designed to attract depositors from outside Harrisburg (pop. 9,332), a depressed coal-mining town. The gimmick worked: the bank has received inquiries from as far away as Australia and the Soviet Union...
...wine trade, and he flunked the psychological test for guards in the London subway. But he worked briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief problem was "to lie down without getting hurt. I started by kneeling and then...