Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unchallenged power, Mobutu has succeeded in giving his country the two things it needed most: a measure of peace and relative stability. In consequence, Zaïre is beginning to attract foreign investment on a rising scale. A Japanese mining group is about to open a large new copper mine near Lubumbashi (the former Elisabethville), for instance, and to the northwest of Lubumbashi an international consortium has discovered what may be the world's richest bed of copper ore. In Kinshasa, formerly Leopoldville, four auto manufacturers are planning to open assembly plants, Goodyear has just completed a $16.8 million...
...doors shows the demand for personal transportation." Detroit has adopted this theme in its marketing. Ford touts the Pinto as a "new Model T," presumably to suggest economy and durability. American Motors is even offering optional blue denim upholstery on its. 1973, Gremlins^^Qmplete with Levi-like copper rivets instead of tufted buttons...
Odious. About La Tour's life and character, very little is known. The man is faceless-the more so, because he left no known self-portrait; it is just possible that the quick-eyed, copper-haired young cheat at the right in The Cardsharp with the Ace of Diamonds may be La Tour himself. But his life is mostly conjecture, strung between a few documentary signposts. He was born in 1593, at Vic, a town in the duchy of Lorraine. At some time between 1610 and 1616, he is assumed to have gone to Italy and worked in Rome...
...countries, including the U.S. Foreign investment in Yugoslavia has totaled only $62 million since 1967, mostly because the government has insisted that Yugoslav companies retain control of any joint project by owning at least 51 % of it. Two months ago, however, the government permitted the nation's largest copper and brass fabricator to form a fifty-fifty partnership with Bieler National Industries, a smallish U.S. marketing firm. Other equally owned ventures may be allowed in industries where Yugoslavia lacks up-to-date technology, such as electronics and chemicals. Since the U.S. Government will now ensure American investments in Yugoslavia...
Harvard voted against an ecologically-oriented resolution to amend Kennecott Copper's certificate of incorporation, and abstained on resolutions requiring drug companies to label uniformly their foreign and domestic products, and to form committees to evaluate the contributions of their advertising to drug...