Businessmen battled with bureaucracy in an effort to 【fulfill】 their hopes.

All other things being equal, a subsequent fall in the dollar might be expected to give a compensating 【boost】 to dollar conimodity prices.

It must compete 【toe-to-toe】 with the United States, Western Europe and Japan.

The slowdown of the industrial countries in 1991 partly 【originated】 in structural problems inhereted from the 1980s.

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Last year, however, China 【ousted】 the US to become the second largest exporter to the emirate with goods worth more than $1,000 million, or 8 percent of Dubai's total import bill.

Shaikh Fahim has already shown in recent public statements that he is inclined to be 【forthright】 about the threat posed by the UAE' s neighbours across the Gulf.