Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evidently swallowed his personal grievance in hopes of cashing in on Europe's newfound enthusiasm for his grand plan for reform. And cash in he did. The 70 top-ranking West German businessmen who accompanied Kohl offered the Soviets a $1.7 billion line of credit and some 30 trade agreements worth about $1.5 billion. Only two weeks before the Germans arrived, Italy's Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita cemented deals worth billions of dollars during his own three-day visit to Moscow...
...unprecedented confession that a deficit exists signaled that the Soviet Union may have to rely even more heavily on foreign trade and investment to feed and clothe its population. To help attract funds from abroad, Gostev offered to let foreign businessmen buy controlling interests in joint ventures with the Soviets. The concession was shocking in terms of Communist ideology, but fresh evidence of Gorbachev's willingness to cross Marxist boundaries in pursuit of economic improvement...
...degree, most of Europe embraces the notion that perestroika represents a golden opportunity to increase trade. But some Europeans hope to collect a bonus by inducing Western-style change in the Soviet political system. "If Gorbachev's reforms are to succeed," says a British diplomat, "they can only do so by making the Soviet Union a very different place." West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, among the first to welcome Gorbachev's promised reforms, argues that the West would be negligent if it ignored the "historic opportunity" offered by the Soviet leader to turn his country into a more...
With Canada's balloting set for Nov. 21, last Tuesday's impassioned exchange between John and Brian in an Ottawa television studio easily bested anything between George and Michael. The key issue during the emotionally charged three-hour debate was the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement signed by Mulroney and Ronald Reagan in January and passed by the U.S. Congress. The agreement, which has yet to be approved by the Canadian Senate, has propelled to the surface profound and often submerged anxieties over Canada's self-image and its relationship with its neighbor to the south...
...shouted and pointed fingers, demonstrators outside the studio waved placards reading FREE CANADA, TRADE MULRONEY. Turner, driving his argument home, declared, "We built a country east and west and north. We built it on an infrastructure that deliberately resisted the continental pressure of the United States. For 120 years we've done it. With one signature of a pen, you've reversed that. It will reduce us, I am sure, to an economic colony of the United States...