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...considerable business empire, he has amassed a fortune estimated as high as $10 million, an amount equal to one-third of the national budget of Haiti, and has probably secreted much of it abroad. Cambronne's commercial interests included monopoly control of Haiti's fruit exports and lumber production, a large coffee exporting firm and Ibo Tours (a travel agency that dominated Haiti's lucrative quickie-divorce market for Americans). He has also trafficked in narcotics and was the silent partner in a firm that paid poor Haitians a pittance for their blood and then resold...
Steve's ultimate plan is to enter the world of small business, and his involvement in his father's six-man run wholesale lumber company really stimulated his fascination in sales...
...other hand, Kosters has spotted price trends that seem to call for quick Government action. An obscure price increase in hardwood maple led him to suspect that lumber prices in general were about to jump. On his recommendation, the COLC put under controls small and medium-sized lumber mills, which had been exempted. Kosters claims that in some cases they were buying lumber from big mills at controlled prices and selling it on the open market for much more. Last month Kosters convinced Rumsfeld that requests by automakers for price boosts on 1973 cars should be resisted. He argued that...
Nevertheless, the prospect for any quick surge of U.S. exports to Japan remains dim. The Japanese eagerly buy American industrial raw materials-coal, steel scrap and lumber-but the obstacles they put in the way of foreign manufactured and consumer goods are still high. The average Japanese tariffs on finished consumer goods have been lowered from a prohibitive 28% in 1961 to 12% now-still far above the average of 7.7% maintained by most other industrial nations. In the past eight years, Tokyo has cut from 155 to 33 the number of quotas that it maintains on imports...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lanky scientist known as "Dinosaur Jim," who worked as a taxidermist, welder, carpenter and longshoreman before turning to paleontology. Last year, on a tip from two amateur rock collectors, Jensen began exploring what was once a prehistoric riverbed near the little farming and lumber town of Delta in western Colorado. By spring he had unearthed a trove of bones that included the remnants of a large carnivorous dinosaur, three prehistoric turtles, parts of ancient crocodiles and small, chicken-sized flying reptiles. But his really big find came only a few weeks ago, when he discovered...