Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end the conferees were reported in full accord on 1) a new fisheries treaty that will redraw the old Rhee line, 2) a trade agreement under which Japan will postpone repayment of South Korea's $45 million trade debt and increase imports of Korean raw materials, 3) a redefinition of the rights of the half-million Koreans living in Japan, and 4) reparations, which will probably come to $300 million in grants and $200 million in long-term credits...
Bear Twist. Rumanians have always hated the Russians anyway, but Gheorghiu-Dej chafed particularly under the raw-material-supplying role assigned his country by the Soviets' version of the Common Market, Comecon. He had no intention of letting Rumania be a combination "market garden" and "gas station." Instead, he talked the Soviets into supplying iron ore and machinery for the construction of a huge steel complex at Galati...
...opportunities are new; others have been around but are just being discovered by the mass of speculators. Investment in Scotch whisky, once highly specialized, has become so widespread that the Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that it will move to impose controls on it. Investors buy the raw whisky by the barrel, wait while it ages for three years or longer, often collect a 100% profit when it is finally sold to bottlers. For $1,000, those who want to be angels can buy a 1% share in the North American rights to a low-budget European bedroom comedy...
From what he had been able to read in South African newspapers. Nakasa expected Malcolm to be "a totally unreasonable person who was out only to destroy--without any reasonable grounds." But instead, he found "a very warm personality who's had a raw deal to some extent...
...process that came out of B.A.S.F. laboratories. In the 1930s, after it had been absorbed by I. G. Farben, the company produced many new plastics and the first magnetic recording tape. To this day, magnetic tape is its only consumer product; everything else is sold as a raw material or for industrial...