Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tokyo government concedes that Japanese chips are still being dumped outside the U.S. But, it argues, the sales are being made not by Japanese chipmakers, who are under government control, but by independent businessmen. Officials claim to be doing everything they can to stop that, as promised. Not good enough, retorts Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "If the manufacturers try to get out of their obligation not to dump in third-country markets by using middlemen, that is a deliberate action. It is the government's responsibility...
...almost as soon as the agreement was signed, the U.S. began charging that it was being violated. The main culprits, in Washington's view, were Japanese manufacturers who continued to dump semiconductors, either directly or through middlemen, in such Asian markets as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Washington was as sure of that activity "as I'm sitting here," declares Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. In January the Reagan Administration privately warned Japan that some kind of retaliation was likely unless the practice stopped. Washington finally conducted an investigation and satisfied itself that dumping had taken place. The Administration's preliminary...
...government had other ideas. Anxious to prop up its shaky , domestic arms industry, Portugal has lifted all strictures against arms sales to Iran or its enemy Iraq. Insisting that Gretl's shipment was legal and should be delivered to Iran, the Lisbon government refused to let Gretl's crew dump its high-explosive cargo back on Portuguese docks. Ever since, the ship and its hapless crew have been condemned to their Iberian shuttle, at a cost of roughly $10,000 a day, while the West German shipper, the Danish charterer and the governments involved try to untangle the mess...
Soon, this sick young man has brought out an entire bag of groceries (including maraschino cherries, pickled peppers, and peanut butter) which he proceeds to dump on the vagrant, splattering the stage and, occasionally, the front rows of the audience. This central event culminates in a failed attempt to snap a photograph--what the young man describes as a "me picture"--while urinating on the human pile of garbage he has just created...
Tosca set in 1944? Carmen in an urban dump? The place to go for innovative opera productions is not the U. S. but Europe...