Word: scrappings
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Formal aid would not be the only component of such a plan. One other step that the rich countries should take together is to lower the tariffs and scrap the quotas that keep many products of the LDCS-beef, sugar, cotton textiles, shoes -out of Northern markets. These rising barriers hurt precisely those LDCs, such as Argentina, Brazil, India and Mexico, that have the best chance of building sound economies based on a mix of industry and agriculture. The World Bank estimates that trade barriers cost LDCs $24 billion a year in lost exports of manufactured goods alone...
Papa was a self-made Ruhr upstart who earned a bundle speculating in scrap after World War I, created a vast industrial empire, and earned a seven-year war-crimes sentence for making P.O.W.s do forced labor for Hitler. Flick Senior bounced back after serving only three years of his sentence. Released in 1950, he was ordered by the Allies to sell his rich holdings in either coal or steel. He chose coal and collected more than $50 million, which he used to build an even more prosperous empire based on petrochemicals, paper, steel-and Daimler-Benz stock. Today...
That came in 1951, when the abbé lost his assembly seat and with it his only income. But just when the commune seemed imperiled, a chiffonier (ragpicker) at Emmaus devised a new source of money: he taught his colleagues how to rummage through trash for useful objects. Scrap paper was sold, broken furniture and appliances were repaired and marketed. The commune became self-supporting and earned enough to add new centers elsewhere. A credo evolved: "Give instant help to those nearest and in need. Show them how to help themselves. Afterward let them help others...
...from dollar slides; and earthquakes may not destroy the U.S. We may forget that Super Bowls are played on the Sabbath, but as surely as God is holy, judgment falls on a nation whose sexual promiscuity and sex perversion is a way of life. As America arrives on the scrap heap of nations, Sodom and Gomorrah will ask: What took you so long...
Jane Langton, author-illustrator of "The Memorial Hall Mystery," said Tuesday she considered it a challenge to incorporate "every scrap" of the 100-year-old building into the mystery...