Word: japan
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...requires at least 80? out of every export dollar Poland earns. Earlier this month, the Soviets helped out with $1.1 billion in hard-currency credits and $200 million in commodities. Poland is still shopping for $8 billion worth of new loans and credits in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan. Chances are that Poland will have to reschedule some of its debt-a humiliating prospect for a country that bills itself as the world's eleventh largest industrial power...
...impact of the Bali decision on energy-consuming countries will be serious. West Germany's oil bill will climb $3 billion from this year's $30 billion, and Japan figures that it will be paying out another $5 billion on top of 1980's $60 billion. In the U.S. the oil tab will also rise by $5 billion, to perhaps as high as $100 billion. Higher crude prices will quicken the pace of inflation in all Western countries. Washington experts predicted that in the U.S. the OPEC decision would boost the cost of gasoline at the pump...
...destruction resulting from the Persian Gulf war. This has permitted oil companies and major petroleum-importing countries to maintain large reserves as a cushion against future price increases or production shortfalls. World reserves are about 300 million bbl. above normal for this period, and both the U.S. and Japan have decided to increase their stockpiles. Without that small world glut, OPEC would probably be pushing up prices even faster. Libyan Oil Minister Abdul Salam Zagaar, who is normally one of the OPEC hawks, said after the Bali meeting: won't ask for higher prices if the market...
...will provide half of the country's electricity by the year 2001. Sweden, where the public supported the continued development of nuclear energy in a referendum in March, is going ahead with plans to more than double its nuclear capacity by 1988. The Soviet Union, West Germany and Japan expect that by 1990 they will be able to produce about 25% of their electricity from nuclear power...
Still, patriarchal societies have weighed unevenly upon creative women in different times and places. In China and Japan, women poets have usually been highly regarded and their work is wonderfully well represented in this volume. The authors spring from all classes and conditions of life: an empress, an imperial courtesan, a Taoist priestess. In the 9th century, a legendary Japanese beauty, Ono no Komachi, voiced this complaint about her lover...