Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...environment will not put them at a competitive disadvantage. So far, though, the Bush Administration has squandered the momentum generated by the Montreal agreement. Administration negotiators outraged nations in Africa, a prime dumping ground for hazardous wastes, by opposing important safety provisions in an international agreement on the shipment of toxic refuse...
...Kong and Japan. In February he helped Tokyo's largest trader, Koichiro Kitagawa, purchase nearly five tons of Sudanese ivory for $1 million from another Hong Kong dealer. In 1987 he engineered the purchase of 26 tons of Congo ivory by the Osaka trader Kageo Takaichi. The $3.5 million shipment contained 2,052 tusks...
Which is exactly the conclusion reached long ago by many other joint-venture businessmen. Perhaps the most typical piece of underhanded dealing involves the corruption of customs agents by hotels. "The law says customs can take up to 10% of an imported shipment of perishable items to test for disease," says a Chinese American who co-owns a Sichuan province hotel. To beat the delay and spoilage that can result from complying with such rules, hotel owners regularly pay off customs officials with "free samples...
...first shipment of 1700 Microfridges went out at the end of August, and the company plans two more shipments by the end of November. Sales are expected to top $1.9 million this year, Bennett said, and "the phones are still ringing...
More than 88 percent of the first shipment was bought by colleges and their students, Bennett said. And students are forming waiting lists at Brown University in Rhode Island and the University of Southern California...