Word: exports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nobleman at his atelier in Rome. It was inspired by the celebrated 1st century Roman marble of Apollo Belvedere, which had recently been carried off from the Vatican by invading French soldiers. Pope Pius VII liked the new Canova so much that the Roman authorities refused to grant an export permit, and it was bought for the Vatican where it now stands. (The Apollo was also returned.) A Polish countess, Valeria Tarnowska, then commissioned a second Perseus, which many consider even more finely modeled and technically expert than the first. The Polish countess paid 3,000 Italian gold sequins...
...progress, Malaysia still has serious problems. Its rubber-heavy export structure is vulnerable to price fluctuations, and last week, with rubber down to 160 a pound, Malaysia was forced to seek more orders from the Soviet markets, which already constitute its biggest buyers. And the country's large and enterprising Chinese minority still threatens to cause trouble over the establishment of Malay as the official language. In East Malaysia - the Kansas-sized states of Sarawak and Sabah on Borneo's northern coast - Communist terrorists based in Indonesia harass rubber plantations and lines of communications, diverting money and manpower...
...their resin, boil it into sticky raw opium, and roll it into loaves of one to five pounds. The fight grows out of a jurisdictional dispute between tribute-collecting soldiers and smugglers who deliver the stuff into the hands of the two Chinese syndicates that control the opium export from Laos...
Experts may differ on the cure for Britain's ailing economy, but everyone agrees that any loss of export markets can only make things worse. Thus it was no small gamble nine months ago when Britain persuaded the United Nations to call for a ban on trade with Ian Smith's rebel, racist regime...
...five years ago before the 61 nations negotiated their first international coffee agreement. Until that time, the grower nations, lured by a postwar demand, planted and pushed onto world markets so much coffee that supply and demand reversed and prices dropped badly. The agreement corrected that by establishing stringent export quotas for each coffee-producing member...