Word: exportation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shock, anger and disbelief, Americans this year have watched food scarcities drive grocery bills out of sight and the U.S. shut out eager foreign buyers by clamping export controls on soybeans and some other crops. Round the world, concern about food shortages grows. In Rome last week, Addeke H. Boerma, director general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, called officials of five major farming nations, including the U.S., to an urgent conference Sept. 20 that will consider ways to deal with a threatened global wheat pinch. U.S. agriculture, long regarded as a bottomless cornucopia whose output...
...seemed that Japan and South Korea had the perfect relationship. The Koreans had an economy thirsty for investments, the Japanese had an excess of foreign currency built up by their booming export trade. Over the years Japanese have edged out Americans as Korea's No. 1 investor, with more than $326 million in private investments. Then came the mysterious kidnaping last month in Tokyo of South Korean Opposition Leader Dae Jung Kim. Although Kim was released in Seoul five days after being abducted, many Japanese are convinced that South Korean President Chung Hee Park's CIA masterminded...
...export controls were clamped on, international prices would rise above those prevailing in the U.S., and the wheat really would move abroad. A few officials are more sympathetic to the idea of calling a world commodity conference to work out international methods of controlling the speculative buying that has helped to rocket prices upward. That seems a good idea, but the Administration is opposed to outright allocation of scarce foods and raw materials between countries, and international panic buying may be unstoppable without that...
Nicaragua's biggest fashion export thus far has been Rock Singer Mick Jagger's lookalike wife Bianca, who sports a walking stick and tuxedos. Bianca is not the only clotheshorse Nicaragua is betting on. The postal service has issued a series of "Famous Couturiers of the World" stamps that reflects a more staid image than Bianca's. The series of eight includes a five-cordoba stamp ($2.00) for Balmain of Paris, a one-cordoba stamp for the French designer Givenchy, and a 15-centavo stamp for Halston, the only American honored...
Nicaragua's biggest fashion export thus far has been Rock Singer Mick Jogger's lookalike wife Bianca, who sports a walking stick and tuxedos. Bianca is not the only clotheshorse Nicaragua is betting on. The postal service has issued a series of "Famous Couturiers of the World" stamps that reflects a more staid image than Bianca's. The series of eight includes a five-cordoba stamp ($2.00) for Balmain of Paris, a one-cor-doba stamp for the French designer Givenchy, and a 15-centavo stamp for Halston, the only American honored...