Word: ellemann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even threatened to start a trade war by dumping 200,000 metric tons of butter on the world market in an effort to undercut European prices. Angry Western European ministers called for scrutiny of the U.S.'s multibillion-dollar farm programs. Said Denmark's Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen: the U.S. is "trying to get us to give up a lot without giving anything in return." In the transatlantic dueling, the Japanese were overlooked, and Foreign Minister Yoshio Sakurauchi went unchallenged as he blandly pronounced his nation's largely inaccessible market "one of the most open...
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