Word: import
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Providence in particular is described as an import operation. "They're pretty much an Irish national team," said McNulty Providence has several Irish Olympians, aged...
...Lorean to Hetrick. The C.I. was identified last week by an anonymous caller as James Timothy Hoffman, 41, who lived not far from De Lorean's 48-acre spread northeast of San Diego. Hoffman and several other men were arrested last year and charged with conspiring to import cocaine. A Government informant had been part of that group. Hoffman, married and a father, confessed and agreed to become an informant in return for probation. His main handler: DEA Agent John Valestra. The Government claims De Lorean approached Hoffman last July, seeking quick cash from a drug deal...
Trying to halt the spread of new import quotas and restrictions is one of the goals of a meeting in Geneva later this month among the representatives of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, known as GATT. It is unlikely, however, that any such agreement can be reached. The European nations themselves are worried about the flood of inexpensive imports from Third World nations like South Korea and Taiwan. The Reagan Administration has generally taken a position in favor of free trade, but with unemployment at 10.1%, it will be hard-pressed to maintain its stance...
...problems with the sanctions: distinguishing between what is and is not directly related to the huge $10 billion construction effort. Though the Administration's sanctions specifically apply only to oil-and gas-related technologies, the project could not go forward if the Soviet Union were not able to import everything from earth-moving equipment to spare parts for cars and trucks...
...Asked to comment on the Polish situation shortly after the vote, President Ronald Reagan snapped, "I think it's horrible." At week's end he vowed to move as quickly as possible to suspend Poland's most-favored-nation trading status, which will result in increased import duties on more than $50 million in Polish goods sent to the U.S. Sharing Reagan's outrage, French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy declared that the union law was "yet another attack against individual liberty and the rights of man." He added that the law would "place a new obstacle...