Word: exportable
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Hall is one of the early innovators. In the years since he was expelled from Ciskei, he has built his new farm, Whitehall, into one of the leading export operations in the Western Cape's fruit belt. This year he put a third of his holdings into a trust for his 170 permanent employees...
...first tests of Republican cooperation with President Clinton will come later this month, when Congress briefly reconvenes in a lame-duck session to attempt to pass the GATT global trade treaty. Though that measure promises to create thousands of new export jobs in the U.S., it is opposed by textile manufacturers, some unions and other influential interests. When the White House last week conducted an informal count of Senate votes, the tally came up two votes shy of the number needed to approve the measure. Welfare reform and GATT were the first two subjects Clinton wanted to discuss with Gingrich...
...German, South Korean, Taiwanese, name-the-country rivals -- and in products like autos, machine tools and computer chips, where a few years ago they were being trounced. The U.S. firms are not only turning back an import invasion of American markets but also triumphing in so-called third-country export markets and even swiping some sales in Japan and other tormentor countries. The closest thing to an official world championship of business is top rank among the nations studied by the Swiss-based World Economic Forum, and last month the forum made the announcement: after eight years of Japanese domination...
...growing inclination among publishers to offer Information online is natural, as the computers used to compose the text of a publication can often export these data to an online service with little or no additional hardware. Periodicals are especially suited to the online medium since they are updated regularly...
Clinton's reasons for bucking party doctrine and backing free trade were both practical and political: in a tight fiscal environment, a President has few opportunities to stimulate the economy. Creating export-related jobs, which pay 17% more than the average U.S. job, is one way to accomplish this, and the President was reminded last week of how urgently he needs to do it. The Census Bureau reported that median household income fell last year $312, or 1%, while the number of Americans living in poverty -- below $14,763 a year for a family of four -- grew 1.3 million...