Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hits a raw nerve. That effect is aggravated because the workers who might lose out to low-wage Mexican competition know who they are, or think they do, while the 12 additional people who might be hired next year by a computer maker to put together more PCs for export to Mexico have no idea that might happen. Then too, there is a vague feeling that the U.S. has often let itself be played for a sucker in trade deals. Perot has harped on that, charging that "dumb" negotiations in the 1980s cost millions of U.S. jobs. The Administration...
...that sugar and citrus producers in their districts should continue to be protected from free-market competition, and that U.S. consumers should be protected from buying less-expensive Mexican imports. The treaty provides for a 15-year adjustment period on sugar imports, but it also allows the Mexicans to export sugar freely after seven years if that nation has a surplus. Sugar-state lawmakers are worried that the Mexicans will substitute corn syrup and other sweeteners for domestic use and divert cane and beet sugar for export, thus creating an artificial surplus. "If it's not fixed," says Louisiana Senator...
...question is, which companies produce? Investment banking doesn't help to increase our nation's standard of living. It just provide jobs for a few people who move around the assets other people worked hard to create. We can't export investment banking. Most importantly, investment banking doesn't do much to create new, non-investment banking jobs...
...like 100,000 tons of packaging materials bearing the green symbol of recyclability have piled up in warehouses, farm fields and abandoned aircraft hangers from Hamburg to Augsburg. Much more has been shipped abroad, some of it as far away as Indonesia, helping Germany become the globe's biggest exporter of trash. "This system has made us world-class litterbugs," says Norbert Barth, a spokesman for the environmentalist Greens party. "It is a waste-export system, not a waste-recycling system...
...long criticized Japan, France, Germany and other countries for attaching strings to roughly $6 billion in their foreign assistance in exactly the manner Clinton has now proposed. "There is way too much of it, in ways that cost Americans way too many dollars and jobs and export opportunities that we could win under any free- market scenario imaginable," the President said last month...