Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing but what they can carry in two suitcases, they are rich in education, skill and ambition. Already there are enough doctors for a clinic on every corner, enough musicians for a string quartet in every apartment building and enough engineers and computer programmers for a booming, high-tech, export-oriented manufacturing sector on the order of Taiwan's or Singapore...
America's latest export to Britain may be the shareholder revolt. Last week angry institutional investors prompted the unceremonious ejection of Sir Roland Smith as chairman of British Aerospace. Smith had come under criticism for a lone-wolf management style and moves into such recession-vulnerable businesses as real estate and automaking. As profits went into a tailspin during the past six months, Smith sought to raise fresh funds with a new stock issue. But word leaked to the press, and shareholders feared a dilution of their stock. The investor backlash inspired the company's board to dump Smith. Such...
...have been wasted since independence was declared," says opposition leader Irakli Shenghelaia. "By now, Georgia should have proved itself ready for investments, for international ties, for peace and order." Instead the republic's economy is stuck on the same old treadmill: too many fruits and minerals but not enough export-oriented industry. Georgia still relies on imported grain, meat, sugar and dairy products to feed itself. Supplies have become so short that earlier this month Gamsakhurdia forbade the export of vegetables, meat and building materials. Charges former prime minister Sigua: "Gamsakhurdia has already destroyed the few sprouts of a free...
...victory of capitalism in Russia is the victory of youth. These young people who defeated a coup and who brought down the statues can risk forming the Russian stock exchange, or organizing an import-export deal for the destruction of the Communist bureaucracy because they don't belong to it. They can ask for free-floating currency because they don't have any life savings tied up in rubles...
...under the front's control, is sending only 10% of the usual fuel supply to the rest of Ethiopia. Says a Western businessman at the port: "There is the definite feeling of a squeeze play here." Wary of the Eritreans, Ethiopian producers of coffee, the country's biggest export, are not sending their goods to Assab...