Word: exportability
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...bidding for better official relations with the West. A rising fear is that Tehran may seek to capitalize on the chaos engendered by the collapse of the U.S.S.R. by inspiring Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in the mostly Muslim Central Asian republics once ruled from Moscow. Worldwide, "Iran's attempts to export the Islamic revolution have largely replaced the former Soviet Union's communist revolutionary zeal" as a source of aid and comfort for terrorists, says Anat Kurz, an expert on terrorism at the Tel Aviv University in Israel...
...Germans have a much better organized market for small and medium- size businesses to engage in exports, including export finance. There are all kinds of things at work here apart from tax incentives...
When the U.S. gave Patriot missile batteries to Israel to combat the Iraqi Scuds raining down on civilians during the gulf war, Washington forbade Jerusalem to export the technology. Now a U.S. intelligence report suggests that Israel may have supplied China with secrets of the Patriot. Israeli officials deny the charge, but the controversy has roiled relations with the U.S., already strained by American demands that the Shamir government stop building settlements in the occupied territories exchange for $10 billion in loan guarantees. The Wall Street Journal fueled the controversy by reporting that Israel is also suspected of having exported...
...will the stall in Japan spell trouble for the fragile American economy? Last year American companies shipped $48.1 billion worth of goods to Japan, making it the second largest U.S. export market. A recession in Japan could hurt the recovery by slowing demand for American products. In addition, Japanese businesses could try to bolster sagging domestic profits by aggressively selling more products overseas, an action that would surely worsen trade tensions. Finally, since Japan helps finance the U.S. budget deficit, some fear that a significant curtailment of Japanese investments in the U.S. could drive interest rates higher...
...scientist George Friedman, predicted a shooting war within 20 years between the U.S. and Japan. The authors wrote, "The issues are the same as they were in 1941. Japan needs to control access to its mineral supplies in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean Basin and to have an export market it can dominate politically. In order to do this, it must force the United States out of the western Pacific." As in the '30s, by this scenario, the tensions eventually lead to a hot war. "The first assumption when the book came out," says Friedman, "was that we were...