Word: exportation
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...Butz's laissez-faire farm policy for putting farmers in peril of a "disastrous cycle of boom and bust." Butz abolished costly Government food stockpiles and deeply slashed the multibillion-dollar farm subsidies established in the Kennedy-Johnson era. At the same time, he launched an aggressive food-export push that has helped boost farmers' incomes...
That could be a key to avoiding another world recession. Great Britain, along with many other countries, seeks an "export-led" recovery to restore growth and currency stability. But the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development looks for no more than a 5% rise in trade among its 24 member nations next year. Worse yet, the O.E.C.D. foresees a composite growth rate for its member countries of less than 4%, without accounting for last week's rise in the price...
Where is our pride? We export technology. Why can't we import ways to make streets safe? We spend billions to protect ourselves from the Russians, but it is the street gangs in America who frighten me. It's law-and-order and freedom from fear that allow a nation to survive, and I say no money for New York and other cities until they restore safety to the streets. I'm mad, sick at heart and disgusted with weak Government officials...
Deep Grudge. Born to a wealthy Rotterdam family, Menten first became interested in Poland through his father's business connections there. The son, in turn, developed an extensive export trade in Dutch products to Poland. Menten moved in 1923 to East Galicia (then in Poland, now part of the U.S.S.R.'s Ukraine), where he became a prosperous landowner and businessman. He was mild-mannered and quiet, but developed a deep grudge against a prominent neighboring Jewish family over a business dispute. Menten went home to Holland in 1939, when Russia invaded eastern Poland, and returned in 1941 after...
...plutocrats and pro-fascists") with an ambitious, deficit-financed investment program in highways, electric projects and oil and steel production. Last year public investment exceeded private investment for the first time in Mexico's history. Rising food costs boosted wages and inflation at home, while world recession cut export markets. Caught by surprise, the government found its deficit soaring over $2 billion...