Word: shipment
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...pile, wishes to abandon his life of crime and start hanging about at posh country clubs. But prosperous as he is, he is still only middle management in the criminal pastry shop. He has obligations to his masters, chief of which is to help them recover a vast shipment of ecstasy pills that have gone missing somewhere between Amsterdam and London. This story line is essentially incomprehensible in its complexity. Mostly what one observes about it is that from time to time, not-very-nice people get dead in a variety of not-very-nice ways. Having a hot steam...
...central Italy's Apennine mountain range. But today, the town of Città di Castello - and part of Italy's art establishment - is in turmoil, because a large cache of Burri's work is missing. The 15th century palazzo that houses much of his output had been expecting a shipment of 30 more Burri works, kept at the artist's country cottage in the south of France. But the works have disappeared, Time has learned. Italian police believe the art was stolen and smuggled out of Europe to the U.S., but neither they nor officials from La Fondazione Albizzini, which...
...inspected at the Ministry of Transport, though they will still be looked over by dealers. Companies that sell foreign-made nail polish will not have to get government approval for each new color. Importers of pharmaceuticals will not need a license from the Health and Welfare Ministry for each shipment...
ARRIVED. THE FINAL SHIPMENT of food aid from the United Nations to China, in the form of 43,450 tons of grain shipped from Canada; in Shenzhen. Since 1979, the World Food Program has provided nearly $1 billion worth of food aid to the once-impoverished nation; in 2001 it announced it would eliminate the program in light of China's booming economy...
...clothing importer's application last month was routine. The Chinese firm wanted to bring some bras into Italy. Anything but routine, however, was the size of the shipment and the price at which the firm planned to sell the bras: 10 million of them, wholesaling for just 50 cents a dozen. Italians buy about 40 million bras a year, so the 10 million represents three months of total Italian sales. For Paolo Zegna, that request to the Italian government confirmed his worst fears. "It's predatory pricing," fumes Zegna, president of the Italian textile trade group Sistema Moda Italia...