Word: exportable
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...keep reading, because I don't think they taught us any of this). If a country wants to be prosperous it must produce goods and services that people want. In the short run, it can produce only for its own market, but in the long run the country must export its production to other countries if it wants to increase its standard of living. Exporting brings new money into the country, which allows the nation's companies to build more and better products, which will increase the wages it pays and the number of people it hires. Increased wages...
...most contentious point in Tokyo was the Americans' demand for quotas on Japanese imports of U.S. products. But the U.S.'s whining about one export category -- movies, TV, records; in short, pop -- was muted. And that's because America rules: America's market share of movies in Japan is 49.7%, up from 30% just five years ago. In the lands of cinema -- France, Germany, Italy -- Hollywood now accounts for two-thirds of all movie tickets sold, twice the share a decade ago. The standard explanation has been the economics of special effects: only Hollywood can produce the big, dumb, violent...
Japan too finds itself a major target for technological espionage, especially from Russia. Last August, Vladimir Davydov, a trade representative at the Russian embassy in Tokyo, left the country after police charged his Japanese associate with trying to obtain semiconductors and telecommunications equipment that are barred from export. Since World War II, Japan has relied on the U.S. to provide its strategic intelligence, and so it has only small equivalents of the CIA or the National Security Agency, which intercepts and deciphers electronic communications. If Japan joins the U.N. Security Council in a few years, as is likely, it would...
...Baghdad -- tools that could be used to cut uranium -- might be illegal. She also learned of Kennametal sales to Matrix Churchill, Iraq's main U.S. purchasing agent, which was gathering materiel for projects like the infamous Supergun. She says she warned company officers that Kennametal was not following export regulations, and questioned other company practices. Within nine months of being hired, she was asked by her superiors to resign for being "uncooperative." Unable to find a new job, Gasior moved back into her parents' suburban Pittsburgh home...
...these women live in fear," says Harris County civil prosecutor Terry O'Rourke. A local crackdown has sizably cut down the traffic since the late 1980s, but it still continues, and crime rings are now supplanting some of the Korean women with Salvadorans. In Los Angeles the trade is export oriented: White Americans have been lured to Japan on singing, dancing and modeling contracts and then coerced into prostitution. "It's a recurring scam," says Los Angeles vice detective Fred Clapp...