Word: exportability
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...easy to understand why the confusion occurred. At that point, Third World officials were more accustomed to receiving direct help than they were at being taught to help themselves. In the years since, however, the University's international assistance has taken a dramatic turn. Harvard has practically ceased its export of experts, and has now settled on a role more appropriate for an educational institution: to provide curricular advice to Third World universities...
...Third World leaders each year, is flourishing in its 25th year. The Business School's International Teachers program is also thriving. Although less than 10 percent of the Mason fellows come from a strictly academic background, a substantial number of the program graduates become a channel of academic export upon returning to their home countries, says Nancy Pyle, director of the program. In developing countries, governments maintain closer links with universities, frequently asking former ministers to teach, Pyle notes. In addition, the contacts the fellows make with K-School professors often prompt them to ask for help in setting...
...more direct and issue if in more removed." Klitguard says that "His export of the '80s in the training to solve problem, rather than the solutions themselves...
...about old debts, Iranian officials give no quarter. Not many dollars either. For two years they hobbled efforts of U.S. bankers and lawyers to settle claims arising from Iran's seizure of U.S. hostages in 1979. So last week, when Iran paid $420 million owed to the U.S. Export-Import Bank, the announcement prompted speculation that the country may be seeking warmer business relationships in the West. State Department officials, though, warned against expecting any improvement...
...parting shot when he left Holland ("Adieu, canaux, canards, canaille!") may be accurately rendered in English as "Farewell, canals, ducks, rabble!" The only thing missing is everything that made Voltaire's remark so witty and memorably alliterative in French. If a four-word mot successfully thwarts attempts to export it, the problems posed by an epic poem more than 10,000 lines long, written two millenniums ago in a language now deceased, are likely to be proportionately more impossible...