Word: exportation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taking better advantage of the emerging global market than any other state in the union. As a key point on the Pacific Rim, L.A. has seen an almost uninterrupted surge in the number of jobs in international trade. The region's technology industry continues to benefit from profitable export licenses. Cheap office space has attracted many foreign businesses that used to think of New York as the only cosmopolitan American city...
...media are converging, one on top of the other, even as the computer, phone line and TV screen are converging into the brave new integrated system of tomorrow. Second, the globalization of the U.S. entertainment industry is roaring forward unabated, making Hollywood an exhilarating, sky's-the-limit export factory...
DIED. YISRAEL GALILI, 72, Israeli weapons designer who invented the Galil automatic rifle and assisted in the development of Israel's most notorious export, the Uzi; following a collapse; in Givatayim, Israel...
...suppress development of such unbreakable encryption on two fronts. It is promoting public use of its own approach to the technology, called ``key-escrow encryption,'' which would allow the government to hold keys to any and all encrypted communications. Washington is also vigorously enforcing a ban on the export of encryption software, regardless of whether such software can thwart government operations from outside U.S. borders...
...work can take its toll on the case officer as well. NOC officers cannot count on just being expelled from countries like officers with diplomatic immunity. Their post-cold war enemies don't trade captured spies as the KGB would. NOC officers in Colombia who have set up import-export companies as covers--bribing drug couriers on the side for intelligence--have been wounded or killed in gunfights with traffickers. A NOC officer serving in Africa was beaten up and jailed for a month. Another, grabbed by a Hizballah faction in Beirut, managed to talk his way out by convincing...