Word: exportability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is made to look giddy and free and challengingly rebellious. This Dutch export is decked out with many of the same attitudes-they might collectively be called punk psychotic-that animated the recent French film Going Places (TIME, June 10). Both movies share the same craving for shock value, the same dim idea that freedom and aggressive irresponsibility are the same. Going Places, however, remained anxiously airy throughout. In Turkish Delight, Director Paul Verhoeven and Writer Gerard Soeteman try to yank the rug right out from under the middle of the film, suddenly portraying everything that had seemed...
...Erling Eide predicts that any reduction in taxation would lead to a severe inflation resulting from Norwegians' increased spending power. The only way to contain the inflation, Eide says, would be to revalue the krone to reduce the cost of foreign imports. Revaluation, though, would damage such Norwegian export industries as fish processing and paper by raising the prices of these commodities in foreign currencies. Significant unemployment would follow...
...Finance Ministry goes along with this dire prophecy and calculates that every $180 million in tax cuts by 1980 would indirectly put 4,400 people out of work by forcing revaluations that would damage export industries. The end result would resemble what the Financial Times of London calls the "Venezuelan effect," in which Norway's oil industry would become "the only provider to a population left mainly, otherwise, to cut each other's hair...
CHEMICALS. When domestic demand evaporated last winter, factory output was freed for export...
...Improvements in unemployment and workers' compensation, education, housing, public financing of federal elections. We oppose trade legislation that would export American jobs, technology and capital because America needs all three...