Word: exportability
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Under the new arrangement, Japan will provide approximately $570 million in a 30-year loan at 3% interest, plus $442 million in export credits at a rate...
...weapons are used. When the Israelis bombed civilian areas of Beirut with American-made jets, in evident violation of an agreement that the planes were to be used for defensive purposes only, the U.S. had to share the blame but had none of the responsibility. Vigorous export policies can also lead to procurement problems at home. Overseas sales of the F-16 will slow deliveries to the U.S. Air Force and NATO, the Pentagon concedes. Soviet sales of the new T-72 battle tank to the Third World have delayed its deployment within the Warsaw Pact...
...purchasing nation and approved by the State Department. Any sale involving $25 million or more must be reported to Congress for review and can be rejected by a majority of both houses. Private sales of less than that amount can be made by companies that get an export license from the State Department's Office of Munitions Control...
...naturalized British subject, Cummings lives with his Swiss wife Irma in Monte Carlo (twin daughters, 19, are U.S. undergraduates) and their life is not ostentatious. Unremarkable, too, Cummings claims, is his business: "Like any other trade," he says. "We don't sell anything without official British or American export licenses. I am not a gun runner." Cummings regrets the U.S. ban on arms sales to Iran ("lost business...
...open spaces; films whose gradations of light and dark are textural, tactile; historical films telling what really happened from the viewpoint of the people to whom it really happened: pudgy people, people with freckles, people whose hands belie their age--until recently, these films have been almost the exclusive export of Australia...