Word: exports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haughty Dismissal. On technical grounds, De Gaulle objected to Britain's imports of cheap foodstuff from the Commonwealth nations, to its restrictions on the export of capital, and to the role of the pound as a reserve currency. Adopting the rules of the Common Market, particularly the agricultural rules, could ruin Britain economically, said De Gaulle. He further objected to tying the fluctuating pound to the now solid currencies of the Common Market members. He insisted that the Market partners would invariably be caught up in the pound's fluctuations and haughtily dismissed as jeux d'esprit...
...Venezuelan episode was a blatant example of the way Fidel Castro is attempting to export his revolution to other Latin American countries. Though he so far has met with little real success, there has been in recent weeks a notice able increase in Castro-inspired terrorism throughout the hemisphere...
...branch out from staple rice and sugar into such profitable cash crops as pineapples, asparagus, bananas and mushrooms. Result: with agricultural output rising 6% a year, Taiwan is not only able to feed itself one of the highest-calorie diets in Asia but has also developed a profitable farm-export market, especially to Japan and South Viet...
...balance it with industry. Says Economic Affairs Minister K. T. Li: "It is often said that every developing country wants to begin with an atomic reactor and an airline of its own. We resisted that temptation." With loans of $43 million from the World Bank, $56 million from the Export-Import Bank and a $150 million line of credit from Japan, the Taiwan government set about building industry and improving the infrastructure of railroads, highways and communications on which it depends. At the outset, major industries were put under government control, and many of them remain there...
Where had this cache come from? BDAC agents traced a Fixaco shipment eastward to a New York City pier where it was marked for legal export to Hong Kong. U.S. Customs men opened the two drums. Instead of a million bennies, they found nothing more incriminating than concrete and stuffing, topped with a thin layer of pills. After two more arrests were made in New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney Irvin L. Ruzicka indicated that one way for bennies to get into the domestic black market is by simple diversion from the perfectly legal export trade...