Word: exportability
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...Daley address the potential dislocations of low-skilled American workers caused by the export of U.S. factories to developing nations, as under scored by an audience member's question...
...Philippines, shipped in to service a garment industry that exploits Saipan's exemption from a number of American labor and immigration controls. This allows the garment factories, most run by Chinese or South Korean firms, to pay foreign laborers substantially less than the minimum wage but still export nearly $1 billion worth of clothes annually to American markets--patriotically stamped MADE IN THE USA and free of duties and quotas that apply to products made in China and Korea...
...DNAP, a misdemeanor violation of an obscure "seed export" law. But these are the first criminal charges to emerge from the Justice Department's 3-year-old tobacco investigation. And now they've got somebody's collar. "They're sweating B&W," says TIME Justice Department Correspondent Elaine Shannon. "And that means everybody's sweating." Just like each of the tobacco giants all have "safe", low-nicotine cigarettes in development in case they're needed, each of them is ready with a high-nicotine smoke, Shannon says; they would never let one of them have it to themselves. Except they...
...handsome red-roofed houses, schools, supermarkets, golf courses and offices to be vacated in the Canal Zone and U.S. military bases and known collectively as the "reverted areas." Though what was returned before 1994 is generally derelict, the government has elaborate plans for the rest, including the creation of export manufacturing zones, hotels and eco-tourism. A few contracts have been signed...
Link has been prospering domestically too. It says total sales will come close to $100 million this year. In 1994 it bought out Dakota Trail, Inc., adding a 50-worker plant in Alpena, S.D., to the Minong factory, which employs 325 workers. Export sales are growing faster, though, and the company is eyeing Costa Rica, Malaysia and Nicaragua as potential new markets. Within two years, it expects exports to account for 25% of total sales. All of which Jay Link sometimes finds hard to believe. Says he: "For us to come out of a town in the north woods...