Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion, poses a potentially worse problem for the U.S. than the turmoil in Central America. The reason: many countries are being forced to impose harsh austerity measures that create social unrest. The Mexican delegation specifically asked Reagan to ease import tariffs on such Mexican products as steel and leather goods. Administration officials were somewhat unsympathetic, arguing that Mexico's markets are far more protected than those of the U.S. Mexico, for example, sells some $40 million worth of beer to the U.S., but bans American beer from entering the country. The Administration, however, offered to consider loosening regulations against...
...eclectus in it falls in their laps." Regulation is often left to the Fish and Wildlife Service, which has 35 inspectors. This is an insufficient number even for spot checks on wildlife imports, which last year included 123 million tropical fish, 5 million other live animals, 8 million finished leather products and 12 million furs and reptile skins...
...Zealand, which had allowed its rugby team to tour South Africa. In 1972 in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes were killed by terrorists. In 1968 America was shocked to see the Games, or rather the awards platform, used by U.S. runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who stretched their black-leather-gloved hands skyward in a Black Power salute, to call attention to the racial discrimination in this country...
...into the open. "Many of the abortions we perform are on unmarried girls," says a Peking gynecologist. "A few weeks ago, I performed one on a 23-year-old worker. It was her third." A pedestrian on Shanghai's bustling Nanking Road may find himself solicited by tight-jeaned, leather-jacketed homosexuals...
...enough deviations from the dance floor. And even with particularly strong performances by Monica Scattini and Etienne Guichard, there is simply not enough material to justify two hours of flitrations and rebuffs. By the time we reach the 1950s and the invasion of the "doo-wop" thugs in leather jackets, the end is long overdue...