Word: exportability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ambassador Chaim Herzog reported last week that approximately a brigade of Cuban troops-usually about 3,000 men-has been with the Syrian army facing Israel on the Golan Heights for two years. This even though Fidel Castro's government last July formally disavowed the export of revolution...
...Canadian government that is increasingly inimical to U.S. business interests. The prospect does not worry Arctic Gas officials. They emphasize that Canadian firms, having found large deposits of natural gas in the Mackenzie River delta, would not only help to finance the pipeline but also use it to export surplus gas to the U.S. Adds William Brackett, the consortium's American vice chairman: "We've been shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway for years without any friction between the nations. Besides, if Canada were to close the pipeline for some reason, the U.S. could retaliate easily. Almost...
...true that the First World has favored imports of LDC commodities rather than manufactured products. This may have discouraged the growth of industry in some of the developing nations and hindered economic diversification. The reliance on a single crop or mineral for export earnings painfully exposes many poor countries to erratic swings in the price of raw materials. Still, while trade relations are not always equitable, it is highly debatable whether the First World has really been using trade to exploit the developing countries. If that were so, notes British Economist P.T. Bauer, then nations like Taiwan, Singapore, Brazil...
...Help stabilize the export earnings of the Fourth and Fifth World countries to enable them to reduce the wild price fluctuations of the commodity markets and develop a realistic strategy for economic growth. The Common Market, for example, recently inaugurated its Stabex plan, which establishes a $450 million fund to be used
...President of the country, William Gopallawa, and the Minister of Agriculture, Hector Kobbekadura, are both relatives by marriage (see chart). Then there are her brothers: Mackie, her private secretary; Barnes, a Supreme Court judge; Sevali, director of the Export Promotion Secretariat; and Clifford, chairman of the State Plantation Corporation. Last month Mrs. Bandaranaike fired her Finance Minister, N.M. Perera, the grand old man of the Trotskyite Sri Lanka Equality Party. She replaced him with another member of the clan, Felix Bandaranaike. Explains one observer: "She takes the position, 'What's wrong with giving my brother...