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...beat vocal trio led by the young Bob Marley, promoting the band's breakthrough single of 1964, Simmer Down. And in 1969 Marley came through Upsetter's doors to record classic cuts such as Small Axe and Duppy Conqueror. Although Marley was to become reggae's greatest export, back then the Wailers weren't Jamaica's only stars. "They weren't even the principle ones," says Steve Barrow, reggae historian and A&R director of the British reissue label Blood & Fire. "They were the ones who lucked out and met Lee Perry, who shaped them and pushed them in another...
...fact, Marcus Consolini is now devoted to ensuring the shoe’s success—launching its manufacture and sale in China and arranging for its export to other Asian markets...
...Saudi government operated at a deficit as its oil revenue failed to keep pace with its spending. As a result, the country that everyone thinks is synonymous with wealth is deep in debt. A few years from now, when Iraq begins to produce serious quantities of oil for export, it may be just enough to send the price down and put the Saudis in even deeper hock. For the royal family, which is walking a tightrope between its corrupt ways and an exploding population of Muslim extremists, that could spell trouble...
...long-term prospects, the Iraqi oil industry is at the moment a shambles, unable to produce enough crude oil and refined products to satisfy domestic demand, let alone export to the world. As gas stations in Baghdad run out, a black market has sent prices skyrocketing. When the U.S. trucked in gas from Kuwait last week, prices began dropping. Refineries are limping along, largely because of a lack of electric power. The Basra refinery, Iraq's second largest, is running at less than half of capacity for another reason: lack of chemical additives for the leaded fuel that Iraq...
...intrepid companies like Chinaveg are doing with farming what's already been done in manufacturing: leveraging China's cheap labor and growing domestic market to build a low-cost export operation. The best potential profits lie outside China, especially in Japan, which imports more than $3 billion in agricultural products annually, and in South Korea, which will ease its import restrictions in 2004. China already ranks as Japan's No. 1 source of imported fresh vegetables (the U.S. ranks second) and is No. 2 in processed fruits and vegetables (after...