Word: exportability
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...doubts that pacemakers can save lives. But as many as 30,000 may be buried with the deceased each year in the U.S. To avoid such waste, Implant Technologies Inc. of Bothell, Wash., wants funeral directors to recover the devices so the firm can then sterilize and export them to the Third World for $600 to $800 apiece. "In the more than 6,000 cases of pacemaker reuse around the world, there has never been a single reported incident of malfunction attributable to reuse," declares I.T.I. President John Elsholz. If a pacemaker works, he reasons, why abandon it? The company...
This talent-export system relies on the Communist authorities' monopoly over sport and culture. In the East bloc, the state controls all sports teams, sponsors philharmonic orchestras and dance troupes and even runs discos, cabarets and jazz clubs. By law, all foreign contracts must be funneled through official talent agencies, which act as impresarios cum exporters. Most of the bloc countries have two agencies, one that deals with sports and another that handles all other specialties. The agencies scout the domestic talent, promote their performers abroad, take bids from Western concerns and negotiate contracts...
...increase in exports may be crucial to keeping the U.S. economy out of a recession in 1988. After five years of economic expansion, American consumers may begin to slow their spending, especially in the wake of October's stock crash. But foreign demand for U.S. goods could keep American factories humming and boost capital spending as companies strive to increase their production. Many economists think the U.S. is on the verge of becoming the sort of export- driven economy that West Germany and Japan have been over the past quarter- century...
...waste into the country. Last week the firm's name hit the headlines again when a tipster alleged that Transnuklear had shipped fissionable nuclear material from the Nuclear Energy Research Center in Mol, Belgium, to Pakistan and Libya. If true, the action violated an international accord that prohibits the export of materials for making nuclear weapons. More important, the radioactive material would aid Pakistan's advanced efforts and Libya's fledgling program to build nuclear bombs...
...Korea during World War II and the Korean War. The company hopes to reap as much as $30 million by buying the rifles for $150 apiece and selling them to antique-gun collectors for $300. But the Treasury Department has barred the deal under the provisions of the Arms Export Control Act. In the agency's view, it is illegal -- not to mention ironic -- for a company to sell Americans guns that the U.S. gave to a foreign country...