Yet most Chinese imports are of consumer goods, competing with imports from other poor countries, whereas America's manufactures are chiefly capital goods.
The port's principal export is Jordanian bulk phosphates; imports are chiefly manufactured goods.
They make up only 4% of students at UT (though 11% in the state) and the proportion is still falling; there were only 200 blacks among this autumn's 7,000 or so freshmen (and they include some chosen chiefly for being good at games).
Imports consist chiefly of manufactured goods, while exports include tobacco, sugar, sisal, hides, castor beans, aluminum, iron ore, and petroleum from the nearby Candeias oil field.
The vertical growth of both cities was not driven by any need of large institutions (church or government) to represent and to display strength, but merely by commerce, or, more to the point, commercial rivalries: most of the towers in San Gimignano were vanity projects of patrician families who had earned their money from the trade in agricultural goods, chiefly saffron and wine.
To learn the written language, what you chiefly need is a good memory.
Last year's growth was achieved chiefly thanks to exceptionally good rains: farm output surged, while industry languished.
Their application later extended far beyond this field, chiefly because of their good casting qualities, strength, hardness, and ease of welding.
Some of the department stores in town are in good shape — chiefly those which have been narrowly redefined as upscale clothing stores with small secondary lines in furniture and cosmetics.
For her part, Salander might be a loner but she believes in collective action, waging war with the help of a few good men, chiefly Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist, reliably appealing), an activist left-wing journalist.
