Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state-owned firms have already been put on a self-financing basis and have elected their own plant managers. Some 20 ministries and more than 70 large firms have been allowed to buy and sell products abroad without going through the bureaucratic bottleneck of the Foreign Trade Ministry. Part of the hard currency these firms earn from such transactions may be used to buy badly needed foreign equipment and technology. A similar strategy seems to be behind a new law permitting joint ventures with foreign companies. Under regulations adopted last January, a Western firm may hold...
...show. Many tasters found la dolce vita by way of ricotta-filled pastry by the Cannoli Factory, and most headed for the booth of Paron Chocolatier to see the first-prize winner among new products (awarded by the show's sponsor, the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade). A visit to Paron meant risking sugar shock because the blue-ribbon concoction turned out to be Eve's Revenge, an obscene and hefty perversion consisting of a Washington State apple thickly coated with caramel and chocolate and encrustations of coconut or nuts...
...White House has tried to cast it that way. Last November it faced rapid-fire revelations about an unhinged 15-month effort to trade arms for hostages with Iran's saturnine Ayatullah Khomeini. In addition, a plane carrying American gunrunners had been downed over Nicaragua, and the Administration's flat denials of complicity were being revealed as lies. Then Attorney General Edwin Meese stumbled upon the diversion of funds from one enterprise to the other...
...attackers may have to shift emotional gears, however. Last month the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally announced that the American alligator is no longer an endangered species. And, at a meeting this week in Ottawa, the U.N.'s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species will release a report urging not only that the common leopard be removed from its list of endangered animals but that legal hunting be resumed...
...used eyewitness accounts and statistical computer modeling to estimate Africa's leopard population at a healthy 700,000 to 850,000. The 75- to 150-lb. cats have even been sighted recently on the outskirts of Nairobi. The biologists went so far as to recommend the resumption of international trade in leopard skins. The best approach to leopard management, they argue, is to legalize a limited "harvest," diverting revenues from poachers and providing an estimated $29 million to "governments and law-abiding citizens...