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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the swampy, humid jungle of Chiapas. Oil is now being pumped at a rate of 1.5 million bbl. per day. The annual income ($8 billion by 1980) is being used to expand Mexico's petrochemical plants and to build up Mexico's other industries. Over the short term, however, Mexico's plans for economic development will require exporting more textiles and other manufactured products-and unemployed workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: To Mexico with Love | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...packet a proposal, plus all the technical data that can be amassed-papers, speeches, manuals-and the company annual report. The Chinese want to study in advance everything about a firm. Send several copies: the Chinese may want to distribute the material widely, but they are woefully short of Xerox machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: How to Dicker with the Chinese | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...pilot does not get the required lift he'll have to abort the take-off and if he's short on pavement he could run into some real problems," Richard said...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Cold Weather and Winds Send Planes Over College | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...actually wrestled pretty well, but we came up short again," Johnny Lee, Harvard wrestling coach, said yesterday, as the grapplers dropped a 20-14 decision to Columbia yesterday...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Grapplers Fall To Blue Lions In Tight Battle | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

LAST WEEK, the Board of Governors of the Peabody Museum was forced for want of funds to sell a collection of paintings valued at 1 million, primarily because of the University's short-sighted financial policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tub Leaks | 2/16/1979 | See Source »

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