Word: exportability
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...Swiss as a backward, uncultured group. The only thing they seemed to be good at was slaughtering large portions of whatever nation's army happened to traverse their rocky frontiers. They were such good fighters, in fact, that in the days before chocolate and watches the confederation's main export was the mercenary armies they hired out to shore up the troops of nations that had given up trying to conquer the Swiss...
...officials assume but cannot prove that the missing VAX computers, which can be used to track missiles, reached the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, DEC was fined $1.5 million last week for violating the Export Administration Act. The Government said that the company should have known that Mueller, whose name appeared on his company's documents, was behind the deals. DEC denied any wrongdoing and said it had been victimized by a "notorious computer smuggler." The fine will be reduced by $400,000 if DEC's West German subsidiary does not commit any additional export violations in the next three...
...proper climate for democracy to bloom. "Duarte has picked up a great deal of support in Congress," says Democratic Congressman Dante Fascell of Florida, a frequent critic of U.S. aid to El Salvador. "People are anxious to give him a chance." Says Rolando Monterrosa Gutierrez, head of an export association in San Salvador: "People are optimistic." Duarte seems exhausted and exhilarated by his first months. "This is not a pleasant job," he told TIME, but then he added that it has brought him both "joy and frustration...
Japan already dominates the $8 billion home video market, producing 95% of all equipment. This year the Japanese will export an estimated 8 million video recording units to the U.S., twice as many as last year. Still, only 15% of American households have videotaping equipment of any kind...
...Administration made no move to abandon its pressure tactics toward Nicaragua, notably covert support for the contras and the scheduling of nearly continuous U.S. military maneuvers in neighboring Honduras and off the Central American coast. Washington still considered those measures essential for forcing the Sandinistas to halt their export of Marxist revolution, particularly to nearby El Salvador...