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...problems began when the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) failed to prepare adequately for the timely import and distribution of half a million tons of fertilizer, according to a former U.S. Department of Agriculture adviser to the CPA. Now, ramshackle vehicles that are supposed to be rushing the fertilizer from Jordan and the southern port city of Basra are stalling on Iraq's rutted, cratered roads. What's at stake is more than just another failed growing season's crops, which include maize, wheat and barley. Agriculture is Iraq's second largest economic sector and largest employer. If farmers have...
...shut down Rx Depot and Rx of Canada, which sell Canadian drugs in the U.S. Along with its Canadian counterpart, it has stepped up its investigation of CanaRx, the Canadian company that administers Springfield's program, for potential violations of Canadian law. Other measures are being weighed, from an import alert on the company's shipments to criminal charges against U.S.-based representatives of the company...
...balance--which of Reagan's actions really mattered, which didn't, who gets credit, who gets blame--something historians will joust over for decades. No one with sense expects a mini-series to answer those questions, but if The Reagans' critics--and defenders--didn't invest it with more import than it deserved, there would be no advantage to be gained. Truth be told, little real damage can be done by a sensationalized mini-series or a network's cowardly cave-in. But opportunistic partisans have something in common with opportunistic TV executives. Neither group wants to let the truth...
...Import duties raise prices for American consumers and protect the price gouging of local producers. Subsidies are another corruption of free markets, channeling taxpayer money into the pockets of the largest and most wealthy American farms and businesses. Gordon Petrequin Belgium...
...Jardin de Budapest and Hungaria, both offering Hungarian specialties like stuffed cabbage and Hungarian sauerkraut. For Slovaks, Poles, Estonians and Slovenians, though, the only way to get home cooking is to cook it at home. Luckily, shops like Polskie Delikatesy, Le Roi du Jambon and Charcuterie Hongroise import meats, pickles, spices and canned sauerkraut. But sometimes you can find home in unlikely places. Many evenings after work, staff at the Czech mission to the E.U. gather in a Congolese bar called Beverly Hills, in the African neighborhood Matonge. It's one of the few places in Brussels with Pilsner Urquell...