Word: exportability
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...world. It is known popularly for its recordings of soundtracks for Amadeus and other films--most recently The English Patient. The Academy tours widely, and has performed in North America annually since 1980. In 1993, the Academy became the first orchestra to be granted the Queen's Award for Export Achievement...
...foreign investors will corner more than a quarter of the country's production by 2000. China raked in nearly $40 billion in capital from abroad last year and lures more foreign investment than any other developing nation. The country is already a formidable force in international trade, an export powerhouse that ranks 11th in the world...
...these companies." The big question is whether a new tax program announced by the government--equivalent to a whopping 2% of GDP--is too strong a medicine. If not, said Courtis, "in six to nine months there will be a dramatic turnaround in the Japanese trade position, the export sector will grow, and investors will see the budget deficit getting much bigger." But Courtis warned the plan could backfire: "The Japan problem isn't over. If they raise taxes too much, the economy is going to crater...
...expressed little personal interest in his foreign visitors except for their technology, which he wanted immediately. Once I brought some books for his beloved grandchildren. Without looking at them, he handed them to an aide and started lecturing me about the need for Washington to lift all export restrictions on modern technologies--not "those of the '70s, but the '80s and '90s," he said fiercely...
...children continue their search for Santa, from city to city and through layer after layer of subcontractors, while Cruella, leading her own army of death-dealing action figures, pursues them. Jack Nicholson in his Joker outfit shows up somewhere along the way as, say, a Hong Kong-based export-import whiz, and at one point Jack and Cruella break into a duet: "Tiny wages for tiny people/ That's the way it goes/ They're lucky to have work/ As everybody knows/ You don't need money anyway, if you're only eight...