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...Their interests are linked to the export of wealth. They import perfumes or nail polish and want us to use our hard-earned dollars from coffee ((exports)) on these frivolities. We say no; our dollars will go for machines...
...Reopen access to Export-Import Bank credits on terms available to other countries...
...show especially funny. "Lay down your Whopper and your fries," one song goes. "Save a rain forest, baby, before the rain forest dies." That lyric is a pointed reference to the fact that tropical rain forests are turned into pasture so that beef cattle can be raised for export to the U.S. and that felled trees become paper for hamburger wrappers...
...name he no longer remembers. There is no evidence that Kitagawa violated any laws, but the rules allowed him to purchase ivory that had been confiscated or whose origins in Africa were lost in the myriad transactions between that continent and Japan. Under "country of origin," some of the export permits say only "unknown" or are blank. Kitagawa bought 13 tons in Singapore last year and twelve tons from Burundi...
...most responsible for the most beautiful train ride in the western hemisphere. It was 1881 when he took over construction of the trans-Canadian railway, a project that consumed several fortunes, 4 1/2 years of agonizing labor and an untold number of lives. "Since we can't export the scenery," he once said, expressing a frontiersman's thirsty love of the land, "we'll have to import the tourists...