Word: abroadly
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Including the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) as an example of "corporate welfare" is a mistake. Ex-Im provides market-rate loans--not grants--to help any exporting company, regardless of size, sell abroad. The $5 billion Congress appropriated to Ex-Im over the past six years has been repaid or is in the process of being repaid! Also, there are 77 other foreign-government export-credit agencies already helping their local companies seize export opportunities from American workers. If there were no Ex-Im, most likely Europe's Airbus would win many, if not all, of the foreign aircraft...
...accident that our list is almost entirely American. It does include Sony's Akio Morita, and it arguably could include a handful of other leaders from abroad, notably Japan's Soichiro Honda and Eiji Toyoda (Toyota), Italy's Giovanni Agnelli (Fiat) and Australia's Rupert Murdoch (now a U.S. citizen). But if the 20th century was, as Luce also said, the American Century, it was largely because our system, espousing freedom of markets and freedom of the individual, rewarding talent instead of class and pedigree, bred a group of leaders whose single-minded fixation on getting rich--and creating great...
...food snob finds it aggravating, if not nauseating, to have to force down mediocre fare, and the sight of the truly bad leads one to consider skipping the meal. My experience from the dining halls is a little removed at the moment, as I am spending this year abroad, but I know reaching into the freezer for dinner here in the apartment is the sign of defeat even before calculating the fat and salt numbers. And so I indulge my obsession: bringing home expensive bottles of balsamic vinegar and olive oil, searching around for pure vanilla, buying pine nuts...
...because it "colonized" Korea but never colonized China, it did invade Manchuria in 1931 and occupy it until 1945. Furthermore, the mass killing and rapes of 20,000 girls and women in Nanjing in 1937 continue to weigh heavy on the minds of Chinese people within national boundaries and abroad. This is a history of violence not easily forgotten...
...recount, for a moment, some of Seaboard's corporate welfare in the 1990s: Minnesota provided more than $3 million in economic incentives; Kentucky, $23 million; Kansas, $10 million; and Oklahoma, $100 million. The Federal Government's OPIC provided $25 million in insurance for business ventures abroad. As for the financial burdens imposed on other taxpayers by virtue of Seaboard's presence, no one knows the cost. It is in the tens of millions of dollars. And all this for jobs that pay little more than poverty-level wages...