Word: exportability
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...finally be trying to kick its habit, but other countries around the world are just getting hooked. Like blue jeans and rock 'n' roll, America's drug culture has been exported to European and Asian youth. Although statistics are hard to come by, drug use seems to be expanding worldwide, especially in the countries that export drugs...
...need new markets," insists Ed Laskowski, who farms in Carlock. He wants to see the Federal Government launch a more aggressive export policy and help develop more acceptance in the U.S. for corn sweeteners and gasohol. Meanwhile, like his neighbors, Laskowski is readying his combine with mounting excitement, replacing chains and belts, building up the snapping rolls on the combine's headers, which grab and chew up the cornstalks and separate the ears. When the weather is good, Ed will work into the night; his wife Judy will sometimes climb up in the cab with him, and they will nibble...
...cars prompted Honda's serendipitous decision to construct its pioneering Ohio plant, a complex now capable of producing 220,000 autos annually. The factory, built alongside a Honda motorcycle plant, began producing autos in 1982, just a year after Japan agreed to accept voluntary quotas on its auto exports to the U.S. The ceiling has been gradually lifted, from 1.68 million vehicles a year in 1981 to 2.3 million currently. But in the interim, the Marysville venture enabled Honda to rapidly expand its American sales far beyond its individual export limit, which in 1985 amounted to just 400,000 cars...
...maintain stability in an increasingly interdependent world, Hoffman recommended "bargaining instead of posturing." The United States should stop trying to "export inflation or deflation and regularly trying to force other countries to pay the cost," he said...
Assistant Secretary of State Richard E. Lyng said the problem may be the fault of the different governments. "Farmers find they are in competition with foreign treasuries," said Lyng, "Export subsidies and domestic subsidies are impediments to fair trade...