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...crude oil from abroad has been a prime reason that the industry has not built enough new refineries at home. This lack of capacity is largely responsible for the present fuel-oil and gasoline shortages. Now, with the quota system abolished, there will be no quantitative restrictions on the inflow of foreign...
South African official policy "assumes that South Africa will continue to rely for an indefinite period on a net inflow of foreign exchange to supplement local sources of finance," said a report by the Investor Responsibility Research Center, (IRRG), a factfinding organization Harvard joined other universities and foundations in setting up last Fall. American investment, about 15 per cent of total foreign investment in the country, was close to $1 billion...
...staffers--whose intelligence-gathering activities have yet to invite any countermoves by the FBI-would welcome help in filing the continuing inflow of material, Koff said...
...latest trouble began building in late January with a minor event: Italy set new exchange rules for the lira. Fearing that the value of their money would drop, many Italians sold lire for dollars, then exchanged the dollars for Swiss francs. The inflow of dollars panicked Swiss authorities, who stopped buying up the greenbacks; the dollar's price in Swiss francs dropped 7%. That did it. Bankers, Arab oil sheiks and treasurers of multinational corporations feared that the U.S. currency would fall against the German mark and the Japanese yen as well; they unloaded their dollars in staggering quantities...
CHUL has received complaints this year from several House Committees that the inflow of freshmen on weekends resulted in overcrowding...