Word: lacks
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This was in some ways the hardest-hitting part of the program because of itds topicality; Smith's direct references to the series of murders served to sharpen the focus of the other outcries make that night against violence against women. Especially poignant were her musings on the lack of opportunity most black women have to escape the atmosphere of fear--"to get away, and write...
...lack of innovation is not the U.S.'s real problem, contrary to the assertions in Marshall Loeb's Executive View [May 14]. I run a lapidary supply business here in Sweden, and I have many letters from American companies that will not supply me with their wares because they don't export. I have had to find new sources in Japan or Germany or, in one case, open my own business in Colorado just to get the things I needed. I have been told that only 8% of American firms export; 80% of Swedish firms export...
...demands, they so far have fallen considerably short of that goal. By and large, food has continued to roll across the nation's highways, but there have been widespread losses and threats of shortages. In California, thousands of acres of ripe lettuce and potatoes were plowed under for lack of trucks to ship them east, a loss that is calculated at $15 million to $25 million. In Florida some farmers face ruin unless 2,000 truckers can be found to ship $50 million in produce to Northern markets. An estimated 45% of the state's $30 million watermelon...
...negotiating a $293 million deal to buy aircraft from Dassault-Breguet, the French planemaker, presumably on behalf of the Saudi government. Nor has Ojjeh's opulence declined. At last count he owned ten Rolls-Royces, 30 Mercedes and two Boeing 707s. Says he: "I do not lack the necessities of life...
Treasury is expected to issue a preliminary finding by mid-July. State Department policymakers worry that action penalizing Mexican exporters would be a classic case of myopic policy. White House Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn reckons that the lack of low-cost Mexican produce could add .5% to food prices. Two powerful Floridians on the House Ways and Means Committee, Democrat Sam Gibbons and Republican L.A. Bafalis, have blocked one measure that would have exempted produce from antidumping laws. Now it is up to Treasury to see if the case can be settled so that the U.S. will not find...