Word: exportable
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China's extensive laogai ("reform through labor") political prison camp system more than rivals the horrors of the Soviet gulags. Not only does China use forced prisoner labor for megalomanical domestic infrastructure projects, the political prisoner population is also used as slave labor for the export market, producing products that range from mineral water to watchbands to rosaries to artificial Christmas trees, according to the Sept. 29 Weekly Standard...
Chan said that students are increasingly more interested in Asian markets, and since Singapore is the eighth largest export market of the United States, it functions as "the gateway to Southeast Asia," for the global market," she said...
...overseas computer market is where the biggest growth lies," says TIME San Francisco bureau chief David Jackson. "Intel has made the overseas market its number one target, with half their sales coming from outside the United States." The thinking behind the export drive is that since most foreign customers are starting from scratch rather than buying upgrades, why leave yesterday's models to languish on American shelves when they can be flogged overseas...
...terms of corporate restructurings, cost cutting and providing executives with lucrative stock-option incentives. If they are right, the region is ripe for some strong market surges. Loretta Morris, manager of the Nicholas-Applegate Worldwide Growth Portfolio, is finding dozens of stocks to her liking, especially among export-driven companies benefiting from weakening currencies. Her favorite countries are Germany, the Netherlands and France. Favorite stocks include the French oil company Elf Aquitaine, Dutch electronics-giant Philips and German carmaker Volkswagen...
...your article "The American Invasion" (Sept. 17), you mistakenly claimed Pamela Lee for the United States as an export to Spain. Actually, Pamela Lee is from British Columbia, Canada, and, thus, you might want to write another article on Canadian entertainment exports to the United States...