Mr. Smith looks favorably on chemicals, papers and other international commodities.

Matthew, surmounting all language barriers, found a beautiful girl in every major European capital - love, he assured William, was an international commodity.

William secured introductions to a director of most of the major European banks - money, he assured Matthew, was also an international commodity.

Although war carpets have been international commodities for some time, those here are unusually ambitious in scale and design.

Of particular importance in this context is the fact that the key international commodities, including oil, are priced in US dollars in international markets.

They built business empires from trading in these early international commodities such as cotton, coconut and gambier.

Magic realism has taken on an internationalization: dozens of non-Hispanic writers are categorized as such, and many believe that it truly is an international commodity.

The oddity of the British achievement has been to turn its sense of social conformity into an international commodity.

Drugs, after all, are international commodities that follow the laws of economics.

This effect has been compounded, thanks to slow growth elsewhere, by low prices for the international commodities that Japanese industry depends upon.