Word: exportability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapid rise is occurring despite the lack of any political agreement between the two superpowers on trade. Last January Moscow abrogated a trade-expansion treaty that would have lowered American tariffs on Soviet goods and made Soviet buyers of U.S. products eligible for long-term credits from the Export-Import Bank. Reason: Congress attached an amendment, promoted by Democratic Presidential Hopeful Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, that required the U.S.S.R. to allow freer emigration of minorities, especially Jews. At the time, the Soviets grumbled that they would get along without U.S. imports rather than allow such interference in their internal affairs...
Three Harvard professors are among the sponsors of a declaration calling on Congress and President Ford to effect a "drastic reduction" in nuclear power plant construction and to suspend the export of nuclear reactors...
...million tons-an amount equal to the 1972 purchases, which would raise prices of cereals, bakery products and grain-fed meat animals. At least some Administration officials would urge President Ford to stop any huge second round of grain sales. And last week the Agriculture Department ordered U.S. grain-export firms to advise it before beginning any new negotiations with Soviet buyers...
...wheat crop this year is forecast at a record 2.2 billion bu., leaving ample supplies for export sales without serious impact on home prices. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz predicts that sales of grain to the Soviet Union will have only a minimum effect on American prices even if they reach 10 million tons, which he believes they will. One possible effect: meat prices will be kept from falling, because a general tightening of grain markets will hold feed costs high...
...capitalism's superior productivity is not solely a matter of electric toothbrushes and throwaway soft-drink bottles: the system also does better at filling basic human needs like food. Farmers in the capitalist U.S., Canada and Australia grow enough not only to feed their own peoples but also to export huge surpluses. In contrast, the Soviet Union?although 30% of its workers labor on its vast farmlands?has to import food. So does India, which permits private farming but insists out of socialist principle that the produce be sold at unrealistically low prices...