Word: exports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then one day he visited the Vincennes zoo. There he learned that 600 varieties of mammals are facing extinction; no species have already disappeared from earth just since 1800. Matta was relatively young (30), making $280 a month in an export-import firm in Paris, and marked for advancement. But he never hesitated. He threw over both present prosperity and future prospects to take a $160-a-month job as superintendent of the 2,000,000-acre Bouna game reserve, 500 miles upcountry from Abidjan...
...four export proposals cleared by Ottawa, only one has been fully approved by two other regulatory agencies, the U.S. Federal Power Commission and Alberta's Oil and Gas Conservation Board...
...Canadian Petroleum Association predicted that the new markets would spur a $6.8 billion oil and gas development in Alberta, British Columbia and the untapped Canadian North in the next decade. The Energy Board estimated that consumption, in Canada and by export, will have totaled 45.6 trillion cubic feet by 1990-when Canada will still have at least that much left in the ground...
Alarmed at the invasion of the domestic market, U.S. publishers prodded the State Department to protest. Previous protests against the export of Formosan copies to Asian countries hai little effect. This time the State Department hinted that mutual-security funds earmarked for Nationalist China might be pared by irate Congressmen if the pirating did not cease. The hint did not go unheeded. At week's end the Nationalist government issued a stern order forbidding the export ot reprints from Formosa...
...closely regulated commodities, has become a powerful economic weapon as the strain in U.S.-Cuban relations has increased. Last week President Eisenhower asked Congress to extend the Sugar Act for four years, grant him authority to cut the quotas of any of the 15 foreign nations (including Cuba) that export sugar to the U.S. Beyond its political implications, Ike's action raised a more basic question: Should the U.S. continue a protectionist quota system that compels the consumer to support the price of sugar...