Word: exportability
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Last January, Teledyne Geotech Inc. got an order for one of its $114,000 seismometers, which are used to measure the force of nuclear blasts. Officials made a routine check of the number on the export license submitted by the would-be buyer, a Colorado company that wanted to ship the device to West Germany. U.S. Customs in Washington confirmed that the document was a fake. Agents began watching the officers of the Denver concern, Norman Cormerford and Bruce Adamski, who had ordered a $54,000 krypton laser from another manufacturer. That device, used to etch computer microchips, was also...
...some U.S. officials in the region were admitting that the flow had slowed to a "trickle." Nonetheless, the Administration has justified its support of rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist-led government largely on the ground that their actions are necessary to stop the stream of arms and the "export of revolution" from Nicaragua to El Salvador...
...shipped by air to South Africa. Then, authorities suspect, a West German named Richard Mueller arranged to have the computer transported via Sweden to the Soviet Union. Mueller, who owns a fleet of shadowy companies with ever shifting names, has already been implicated in two major violations of U.S. export...
...truth, of course, is different. Third world nations have long been sources of cheap labor and raw materials for the Western economics. Many countries--forced at economics and military gunpoint to become export-crop farms--are the places where hunger is most pernicious...
...said that in Tokyo. "We established an agenda for progress" on giving American business greater access to Japanese markets, expanding U.S. energy export cooperating more closely on defense technology and helping the U.S. auto industry recover from the recession...