Word: import
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debts, Iranian officials give no quarter. Not many dollars either. For two years they hobbled efforts of U.S. bankers and lawyers to settle claims arising from Iran's seizure of U.S. hostages in 1979. So last week, when Iran paid $420 million owed to the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the announcement prompted speculation that the country may be seeking warmer business relationships in the West. State Department officials, though, warned against expecting any improvement...
...autos could run on peat, the Irish would be energy sultans. But because the republic (pop. 3.4 million) has almost no other known resources of fuel, it must satisfy 65% of its energy needs with imported oil. For more than a decade, Ireland has been green with envy over Britain's North Sea petroleum windfall and has searched vainly for its own bonanza. Lately, though, Dublin has been awash in a gusher of speculation about a discovery in the Celtic Sea, which separates Ireland and Britain. Last week the rumors proved to be valid. Gulf Oil acknowledged that...
FRANKIE AVALON and Annette Funicello would not recognize the teenage beach culture depicted in Bruce Beresford's Puberty Blues. In this Australian import, the surfers and their girls don't sing and dance blissfully, and they certainly don't undergo innocuous adventures cuddling under the moonlight...
...Afghanistan. The Soviets responded by lining up other suppliers, including Argentina, Canada, the European Community and Australia. Result: the embargo was almost ineffective and cut the U.S. out of sales just when Soviet demands were surging. During the past twelve months those sources supplied 80% of Moscow's import needs. Before the embargo, the U.S. provided 70% of Soviet grain imports...
...comes when the Soviet Union is enjoying a rare good harvest. The Agriculture Department forecasts a healthy Soviet grain crop of 200 million tons this year, short of Moscow's hoped-for 239 million tons but still the best since 1978. That will reduce the Soviets' grain-import needs for the next twelve months to 30 million tons, from a peak of 46 million tons two years...