Word: exportability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Export. Drug abuse has not been completely eradicated, of course. Youngsters now go in for glue sniffing and amphetamines, and a heroin arrest is still made occasionally. But Japan's success has been dramatic enough to awe visiting American experts. Can the Japanese system be exported to the U S.? Many U.S. experts think not. Japan's population is homogeneous, generally law-abiding and, where national goals are concerned, responsive to official appeals for cooperation. Americans are far more heterogeneous and resistant to authoritarian preaching. The young, in particular, insist increasingly on asserting their "individual rights." Many officials...
...that is true, Harvard should be grooming its junior Faculty members for tenured positions. Instead, Harvard is an export factory which supplies the nation's universities with many of their brightest young professors. As its budding scholars fall off the vine, Harvard goes on looking for "the best man available anywhere in the world" to fill each opening. That is why this year, for instance, the History Department failed to renew the contracts of three junior Faculty members and extended futile offers to distinguished European historians who replied that they like it where they...
...course you have every right and reason to remind the Japanese that they must pull their weight. Under the threat of another trade and monetary crisis, they are at last realizing that they cannot continue piling up vast trade surpluses and treat development aid as a kind of export promotion. You will surely warn them of the political spillover effects if they fail to follow through on this promptly. You should also press them (again) to do something about that bureaucratic screen that they have used, for far too long, to protect their industries from outside competition...
...mass market and makes money. That is all we set out to do." In fact, the production is amateurish, with spotty acting and poor camera work and direction to match the inane script. Still, so overwhelming has been its Australian success that the producers are looking for export markets. Because the show is black and white-and slightly blue -the U.S., perhaps fortunately, is not on the sales list...
...goods abroad, and even more by its having what is perhaps the world's strongest currency, the yen. Many Japanese fear that the money flood will bring intense new foreign pressure for still another upward revaluation of the yen. They also believe that it is high time to export not only merchandise but also money...