Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from approaching and easily disabling the larger mines. Clinton's decision to join the Ottawa process came abruptly, less than a week after the Pentagon was patiently explaining that the U.S. wouldn't join because the talks "do not involve other countries that have huge inventories and which actually export them." Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who has assembled 60 votes for his proposal to outlaw land-mine deployment by the year 2000, praised the switch, even with its caveats. "The Administration's come a long way toward my position in the last couple of days," he said...
...mail by encrypting it with secret codes so powerful that even the National Security Agency's supercomputers would have a hard time cracking it. Such codes are legal within the U.S. but cannot be used abroad--where terrorists might use them to protect their secrets--without violating U.S. export laws. The battle between the Clinton Administration and the computer industry over encryption export policy has been raging for six years without resolution, a situation that is making it hard to do business on the Net and is clearly starting to fray some nerves. "The future is in electronic commerce," says...
...Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot) and romance (remember Rhinestone?) were low-level disasters. His recent action films have been box-office duds at home, though usually robust moneymakers abroad; last year's Daylight earned only $33 million in North America but $120 million elsewhere, making Sly a pricey export commodity. "He epitomizes the state our industry is in," says Daylight director Rob Cohen. "With Rocky he proved a $1 million film could be a big hit. Now we want to make movies for the global market, but how do we get global and still keep the domestic audience...
Templesman, a diamond dealer with long experience in Africa, was seeking loans from the Export-Import Bank and loan guarantees from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a multimillion dollar diamond deal in Angola. After the meeting, a sympathetic Lake decided to intervene: he directed an NSC staff member, with approval from legal counsel, to call Ex-Im and OPIC. The message: Templesman's venture had "merit." But TIME has obtained the text of a recent letter from Angola's ambassador in Washington that bluntly asks the U.S. to stop attempts to broker a diamond deal and, in an apparent...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP Japan served as a marvel of industrial planning gone right. Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry kept the cost of capital low and directed resources to export sectors such as autos and consumer electronics, at the same time fiercely protecting the home market from foreign competition...