Word: abroadly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freundlich (Viking; $45). The hottest Louisiana purchase since the paperback rights to Anne Rice's vampire novels is a Blue Dog painting by the canny Cajun artist George Rodrigue, whose striking work can be found not only at his New Orleans gallery but also in Carmel, California, and abroad. Posed with barnyard animals or buxom nudes, Blue Dog is a captivating and mysterious mutt who stares out at readers with zonky yellow eyes. Did someone put hashish in her biscuits? No. As B.D. "explains," she is the cerulean ghost of the artist's departed four- legged companion Tiffany, now channeled...
...arrive daily, and airplanes disgorge businessmen, missionaries and a small army of development experts $ who, it is hoped, will eventually disburse more than some $645 million in financial aid from international lenders. The capital's sidewalks are bristling with vendors. Mango growers have sold $600,000 worth of fruit abroad, and orange peels destined to flavor Grand Marnier are again drying in the midday...
...they possess similar armaments. "The success we enjoyed in the Gulf War was due in some substantial measure to the interoperability of the allied forces," this official says. Besides, defense contractors are starved for work. "We're in a difficult time. Shrinking U.S. defense budgets add pressures to sell abroad...
Critics argue that America's surging weapons sales will turbocharge regional arms races -- 66% of all U.S. exports go to Third World countries, among which are many fragile autocracies vulnerable to sudden power shifts. While funneling weapons abroad may delay the Pentagon's and its client industry's shrinkage, it perpetuates an addiction for military perquisites. As Randall Forsberg, director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, puts it, "The forces and defense industries needed by the industrial countries are largely a function of regional arms buildups created by their own arms exports...
President Clinton signed the historic General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs today, launching U.S. entry into a 123-nation trade accord to slash import tariffs here and abroad. But he did so over vehement protests from critics who say GATT will undermine American labor by ending penalties against the products of low-wage workers from other countries. "Hey, Bill! You're selling out!" a man with a megaphone outside the Organization of American States shouted as Clinton arrived for the ceremony. Clinton's reply to the public: "We must never run away from the world." The treaty cuts global tariffs...