Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peru--The leaders of Peru, Colombia and Bolivia conferred in this desert city yesterday, guarded by thousands of police and soldiers, on a common strategy against the multibillion-dollar cocaine trade in their Andean nations...
...Standard, a respected Austrian daily, said yesterday the East German leadership would like to hire 80,000 Chinese to fill positions left vacant by the departure of young skilled workers. It quoted a "leading member" of the government's Free German Trade Union, who was not identified further...
Since early this summer, the finance ministers of the seven leading industrial countries have seemed almost powerless to tame the surging U.S. dollar. They agreed the currency was too high and, in the long run, threatened to aggravate the U.S. trade deficit. But their desultory attempts to push down the greenback prompted suspicion that the G-7 group had lost its clout. Last week the finance ministers made a concerted effort to bring the dollar down by intervening in the currency markets. The U.S. currency fell nearly 5% against the yen and about 4% against the deutsche mark by week...
...existing federal gasoline tax. Anyone can understand it. At a flat 9.1 cents per gal., it's easy to collect and reasonably fair, since the more you use the roads, the more you pay for them. It also discourages things we want to discourage: dependence on foreign oil, the trade deficit, pollution and traffic. As taxes go, this one's a winner...
...Hanoi to believe that the withdrawal of its troops from Cambodia would be enough to rescue Viet Nam from its international isolation. But with that formulation, Washington destroyed Hanoi's hopes for prompt normalization of relations with the outside world and an end to the trade embargo that has wrecked Viet Nam's economy. The crippling boycott has deprived Hanoi of all Western aid, credit, technology and trade, turning the country of 65 million people into a basket case...