Word: leans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting also hoisted storm warnings from the poorer nations that depend on exports of raw materials. Despite Common Market progress, most prosperous European nations still cling to the maze of tariffs, quotas, and domestic farm subsidies that proliferated in lean postwar years to discourage imports, now hurt their own consumers as well as African, Asian and Latin American producers. Ranging from a West German levy that boosts the price of coffee to 35? a cup in restaurants, to the Common Market's exorbitant duties on cocoa, such restrictions actually work against the West's financial and technical...
...fishermen was Enrico Mattei, 55, lean, restless boss of E.N.I., Italy's state-owned oil and gas monopoly. A rapidly growing power in international business, Mattei has outraged the major oil companies by flooding their European markets with his own gasoline (much of it made from Russian crude) and by moving into the Middle East and Asia with drilling bids so generous that they have all but made a dead letter of the traditional fifty-fifty profits split between the oil companies and the nations in which they operate...
Even in a normal season, such a glut--which hurts both the public and the plays--would be foolish. But it is especially idiotic to be faced with an embarrassing richness of drama in such a lean season as this past...
...confidently assert that their slide has ended, predict that their 1962 sales will bounce back up to 400,000. But many of the 30-odd foreign makes that flourished in the U.S. in 1959 have been all but driven from the field. Only about a dozen foreign manufacturers, with lean, battle-hardened sales organizations, are expected to make money next year in the U.S. market...
...addition to Chile and Peru (whose approximately 20,000 local Chinese residents still lean toward Chiang Kai-shek), Peking's chief targets are Cuba and Brazil. In both countries local Communist parties are controlled by the Kremlin, but signs of sympathy for the Chinese Communists are unmistakable...