Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will take more than talk to increase trade between the two superpowers. The U.S. presently buys caviar, sable skins, chrome, aluminum scrap and various chemicals from the Soviets, but they have little else of immediate interest to offer American importers. Soviet industrial officials are anxious to acquire high-technology American goods, particularly machine tools and computer software; however, many of the items they desire require special clearance from the Commerce Department because of alleged national security considerations...
...that he backed away from making a grab for power. According to some accounts, Brezhnev could count on only five votes. At least seven Politburo members are implacably opposed to granting greater governmental authority to Brezhnev to go along with his party leadership; to do so would be to scrap the collective leadership system that was instituted after Khrushchev's ouster as a safeguard against one-man dictatorship...
...peak of the fighting between the French and the Viet Minh during the "first Indochina war," South Viet Nam derived some income from exports of rice and rubber. But now many of the plantations are in ruins, rice is imported from the U.S., and the leading export is scrap metal left behind by the departing U.S. military. Exports bring in a bare $16 million a year, while imports are running at an annual rate of $700 million...
Armies are machines designed by and large for human destruction, but they are also generators of huge piles of junk. Even in peacetime, military decisions to scrap costly and complicated systems constantly add more litter to the pile. As a result of 30 years of hot and cold wars, the U.S. Department of Defense has become cumulatively-and with a sense of considerable embarrassment-far and away the nation's biggest litterbug...
...area is off limits to human visitors because it contains unexploded bombs and rockets left there 30 years ago, when the Navy used the park as a test-firing range. Although much of the ordnance is buried deep beneath the desert sands, a civilian team sent to salvage scrap five years ago disappeared suddenly in a cloud of smoke...