Word: exportable
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While Britain has lost its edge in manufacturing and rock music, it is still the world leader in ceremonies and formal occasions. Disney has the know-how to export this skill. Royal trumpeters, flag wavers, standard-bearers, etc., could be leased to governments and companies for annual meetings and other events. The royal flatware and dinnerware could be rented out for notable weddings. Speaking of nuptials, it's a shame Britain missed the pay-per-view potential of Charles and Di's. It's not too late to put together a TV deal for the divorce proceedings, but Disney...
...Nigeria can withstand these diplomatic censures as long as its financial support remains intact. Most of that support comes from foreign investment, particularly from oil companies that export primarily to the United States. Shareholders in those companies now have a moral obligation to divest. American investors should let the world know that their money does not go to tyrants and murderers...
...discrete subjects to particular aides, like Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke for Bosnia and Robert Gallucci for Korea. Bidden and unbidden, Jimmy Carter has also stepped in at crucial moments. Different Cabinet officers sometimes seize parts of a policy, like Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, whose drive for export promotion has clashed with the State Department's efforts to curb arms proliferation and human-rights abuses. Individual results may be impressive, but foreign policy by franchise loses the force and coherence of a guiding intelligence. "Every once in a while someone wanders into the engine room and pulls the throttle...
...industry, which accounts for 80 percent of Nigeria's export income, has crumbled under pro-democracy movements such as the one led by Saro-Wiwa and his minority Ogonis, who say their oil-rich southern lands have been destroyed by the industry...
Sharply raising tariffs might, in the short run, protect some jobs in industries facing import competition. But even if these tariffs didn't trigger a full-scale trade war, they would probably inspire counter-tariffs that would cost American jobs in export industries. To point this out, says Buchanan, is to counsel "fear and timidity...