Word: yokohama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what's the name of the place I mean? Capital of Japan? Yokohama...
...huge U.S. trade deficits additionally are kicking up prices by depressing the dollar and making imports costlier. How to reduce that deficit? Cracked Eckstein: "We might do it if we could find a way to close the port of Yokohama for a few months." More to the point, Yale Professor Robert Triffin sees little chance of narrowing the trade gap until "the Administration and Congress make some significant sign that they are doing something about the basic problem of energy." Greenspan agrees, though he believes that the dollar's value will stabilize or rise on world markets because...
Equally inhospitable, at first, were authorities in Taiwan: they put a police cordon around the ship to prevent anyone from getting off. Prospects for the refugees were equally poor at the Yuvali's next port of call, Yokohama, Japan has consistently refused to admit escapees from Indochina unless the United Nations or another country agrees to take the refugees off its hands quickly. Most Asian states will accept them-temporarily-only if there is no other way they can survive...
...Polish thrust is not yet a major threat to the better-known shipyards of Bremen, Clydeside and Yokohama. The country still ranks only twelfth in gross registered tonnage among shipbuilding nations. But Poland's annual output has risen 50% just since 1970, to 750,000 deadweight tons, and shipbuilding has become the country's second largest earner of foreign currency, after coal. Polish shipbuilding has become one of the few Communist bloc industries ca pable of competing in the West on straight commercial terms. Capitalist nations last year bought almost $200 million worth of Polish ships, about half...
...Brewster, vice president of Chicago's Inland Steel, forecasts that steel imports will fall 20% this year, to about 14 million tons. Result: about 100,000 cars bought by Americans this year will be assembled by workers in Los Angeles or Flint, Mich., rather than in Wolfsburg or Yokohama, and the steel going into those cars will be rolled at mills in Gary, Ind., or Braddock, Pa., instead of Aachen or Kitakyushu...