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...beyond the amount needed for the tax, prices will remain frozen until at least the end of April. After that, increases will be permitted only to cover "unavoidable cost increases." Though no specific guidelines will be created, companies will have to prove that their price rises stem from increasing import costs or pay raises...
...student he spent most of his time helping to run his family's profitable drug-wholesaling business. He went to Russia in the 1920s, intending to set up a field hospital. But he quickly realized that the Russians needed food more than medicine and arranged to import grain from the U.S. in exchange for Soviet furs, hides and caviar. His success won him an introduction to Lenin, who granted the young American a pencil-manufacturing concession. In 1930, after the climate for Western capitalists had turned increasingly cold, he sold off his thinning enterprises to the Soviet government...
...Hammer succeeds, he will give a spectacular push to the movement toward greater trade between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In particular, his version of a plan to import vast quantities of Siberian gas may eventually help relieve the American energy shortage. But a growing legion of skeptics among investment analysts and fellow businessmen will be astonished if Hammer can come back with any major agreement -and even more surprised if he can arrange the financing to carry out his part of a big deal. They note that Occidental, one of the growth wonders of the 1960s, already carries...
...Joyce Chen Cook Book have been sold since it first appeared a decade ago. Mrs. Chen performs on her own Julia Child-style television show, which has gone into reruns on as many as 100 stations in the U.S. and Canada. Recently the Chinese government designated her as import agent in the U.S. for some spices, art pieces, chinaware and tea. So far, Joyce Chen's activities have earned her a personal fortune of more than...
...season many college basketball coaches run lucrative clinics where they import high powered teachers and prestigious pro ballplayers to instruct the children of the upper middle classes. Occassionally poor black kids are given scholarships, but not often...