In the mid-2000s , it was found Know to have been , through middlemen , paying Commerce_pay kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein , in exchange Exchange for lucrative wheat contracts .

although bolivia had lucrative mining income Earnings_and_losses and a larger , better-equipped Bearing_arms army , a series of factors turned Becoming the tide against it , and paraguay came to control Control most of the disputed Quarreling zone by war 's end Process_end .

Control Control over the lucrative oil production Manufacturing in the Niger Delta played Competition a vital strategic role .

The era was characterized Judgment_communication by rapidly growing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale boomtowns , the emergence Coming_to_be of large-scale farming and ranching interests , lucrative mining operations , and the development Cause_to_make_progress of new technologies in railroading and telecommunications .

The Hudson Bay expedition Attack of Jean-François de Galaup , comte de La Pérouse was a series of military raids Attack on the lucrative fur trading Exchange posts and fortifications of the Hudson 's Bay Company on the shores of Hudson Bay by a squadron of the French Royal Navy .

The Southern Song , however , quickly returned Arriving to economic prosperity , and trade Exchange with the Jin was lucrative despite decades of warfare .