Word: exportability
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...most striking transformation of Japanese society since the country's emergence as a major industrial power in the decades that followed World War II. Ironically, the Prime Minister wants to reverse some policies that have helped produce his nation's extraordinary economic might. That strength was developed mainly through exports. But Japan's huge trade surplus, which now stands at $61.6 billion, has aroused worldwide calls for trade protection and stirred deep resentment against the increasingly isolated island nation. To halt those trends, Nakasone strenuously urges his countrymen to export less and import more and to produce more goods...
...inflation rate, widespread labor unrest and a foreign debt of $4.8 billion. Says Paz Estenssoro: "We are attempting to rescue the country from ruin." The job has been complicated by the worldwide collapse in the prices of tin and natural gas, two key sources of export earnings...
...specimens were first taken to the Nova Scotia Museum. Grantham, who said he embodies "the entire geological staff" of the museum, did not apply for a permit required to export "cultural" material. He said he had not known one was required...
...trading partner, having increased two-way trade from $967 million in 1967 to $23.5 billion last year. The Administration is delighted that these free-market nations have far outperformed their Marxist neighbors, but is concerned that since 1983 the bottom has fallen out of practically all the region's export commodities, not the least of which is oil. As a group, the ASEAN delegates called for more American investment. In response, the U.S. asked for an easing of trade restrictions...
Although the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Italy and West Germany failed to come to grips with the divisive and volatile issue of farm export subsidies, they did agree to a host of other initiatives, including coordinated efforts to improve nuclear safety in the wake of the Chernobyl reactor accident in the Soviet Union...