Word: import
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loans over the next three years. Banking sources said that the request might be approved within six weeks, which would in turn give the commercial banks enough confidence to reschedule Mexico's debts. But the IMF is likely to demand some painful belt-tightening measures, including wage freezes, import restrictions and reduced government subsidies, which could dangerously aggravate social tensions in Mexico...
...advertisements are not conspicuous. They do not cover billboards or blare from the television set. They appear instead as small-print public notices in local newspapers or obscure items in official Government publications. Taken together, though, their import is unmistakable: the U.S. Government is about to hold its biggest real estate sale since the opening of Oklahoma...
...U.S.S.R. has just suffered its fourth bad harvest in a row; the U.S. Agriculture Department estimates that this year's Soviet crop will be a disappointing 170 million metric tons, 68 million tons below the goal. The department also predicts that the Soviets will be forced to import 46 million tons this year, at a cost of $6 billion...
...into effect drastic austerity measures, including import restrictions and foreign exchange controls. Nonetheless, the stores of Asian traders in Nairobi were still full of luxury imports available to the economic elite and the more blatantly corrupt members of Moi's own government. Warns one Nairobi businessman: "Unless the government does something drastic to improve the situation, all hell is going to break loose...
...down a bit, and the price of their chips stopped falling. The Japanese firms said they were limiting their exports because of strong demand for chips in their domestic market. Some industry analysts in the U.S., however, suspected that the Japanese were reducing their shipments to avoid facing U.S. import restrictions...