Word: exportation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extend a little leeway on debt repayment. "Different ministries are already quarreling about how real the surplus is because the budget was calculated at a much higher ruble-to-dollar rate," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "There certainly are some strong economic indicators on the positive side ? exports are up, imports are down and industrial output is increasing. But the improvement in government revenues is mostly due to a rise in oil export earnings and tighter currency controls. And the economy remains as graft-riddled and barter-driven as ever...
...amazon.co.uk confirms that there has been "considerable interest" from overseas customers, which means that Scholastic, the U.S. publisher, is losing untold sales to British publisher Bloomsbury--an increasingly sticky issue of territorial rights raised by the borderless Internet. For now, Scholastic is bowing to copyright laws that permit the export of one copy per customer "for personal use." Says Arthur Levine, the series' U.S. editor: "It's not an issue I even want to talk about." In the future, though, he'll be taking no chances: the fourth Harry Potter will be released simultaneously in Britain and America next year...
...that the worst of the national security flap over China appears to be over, the White House has decided to do what the computer industry has long wanted: ease export restriction on high-performance computers to foreign countries. On Thursday the President decided to raise the limits on the power of computers that can be sold to more than 100 countries in Central Europe, Latin America and Asia without going through laborious licensing procedures. Good business, or rather the loss of good business, was the basic rationale. "Computers that are widely used by businesses and can be manufactured by European...
MARRIED. CHRISTOPHER DODD, 55, U.S. Senator from Connecticut; and JACKIE M. CLEGG, vice chair of the Export-Import Bank; in East Haddam, Conn. It is Dodd's second marriage...
...just in the United States. Dissembling may have long been among the crucial skills of politicians everywhere, but now ?- like blue jeans, rock 'n' roll and "Baywatch" ?- taking the politics out of politics has become another popular American export...