Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exporting natural resources and those desperately poor countries that still have to import both oil and food grains. Thus oil has transformed nations like Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria and the Arab sheikdoms into a kind of plutocracy of the poor. Countries like Zaire and Zambia (copper), Morocco (phosphates) and Malaysia (rubber) also gained large amounts of foreign exchange. Still a third group, including South Korea, Singapore, Brazil and Mexico, exports enough manufactured goods to cushion the impact of worldwide inflation...
...than anybody "had reason to expect"? I live in a state with 13% unemployment and adjacent to one with 16%. If he can't or won't do anything about things like that, it's hard to care if Ford has a nice family, likes the rubber-chicken circuit, or can beat up Cambodia. Just because he isn't as sinister as Nixon doesn't mean he's a good President. Quit churning out this cynical, sycophantic...
...companies throughout the state that specialize in flying vacationers into remote areas for canoe, kayak, raft, backpacking, hiking or sheep-hunting trips. One such expedition was arranged by an Anchorage man and three friends from the Lower 48. After being dropped north of the Arctic Circle, they drifted on rubber rafts down the Noatak River to Kotzebue Sound in two weeks. "It was the most relaxing trip I've ever made," said the organizer, Andy Williams, who claims to have read War and Peace and quit smoking en route...
...arrests. Suspected Communists were tortured to betray other comrades; few broke, but some did not survive. "They were barbarians," says Avante Editor Dias Lourenço, who was freed at the time of the revolution after 17 years in prison. Once, he recalls, he spent two nights "under the rubber whip while they tried to get me to talk. All I said was, 'I'm listening...
...networks. Now it seems, resistance has begun to crack. This week station KJAN-TV in Canton, Ohio, will start running the ads. As for KNTV, it views its pioneering role with mixed feelings. Says Yearwood: "It's a hell of a claim to fame accepting the first rubber commercial...