Word: exportation
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...sells in America. Joshi does not enjoy having a travel schedule as packed as Kofi Annan's. But a system of quotas, originally put in place in 1974 to regulate a $350 billion-a-year global industry, limits the number of shirts, towels and other textiles any country can export annually to the U.S. and the European Union. As a result, the Children's Place?and all other American retailers?can't buy exclusively from countries that make them most efficiently and cheaply, such as China, but must also order from less competitive factories in places such as Burma...
...also raised concerns regarding export control rules that may be interpreted to ban foreigners’ ability to use sophisticated scientific equipment in the lab. Such laws are laxly interpreted today though may be reapplied in the future to inhibit foreign professors’ and students’ access to such equipment...
...primary mandate was to seek methods for increasing food production. Since then, ARS scientists have helped find ways to double per-acre wheat production and triple cows' milk output. But now that we produce far more food than our collective maw can swallow--and more than we can export--ARS is setting its cross hairs on new challenges. One-fifth of the agency's $1 billion budget goes to "utilization research" to employ unused agricultural products in places other than landfills. That's where the feathers come in: America's appetite for poultry yields about 5 billion pounds of plucked...
Guitarist Alun Woodward has a few moments of soaring vocals recalling Scotland’s other pop music export, Travis, but The Delgados never wander into their shoegazing territory. The album’s two strongest songs, Woodward’s “Is This All That I Came For?” and Pollock’s “Everybody Come Down” run back to back, a choice that does much to remind listeners of good ol’ pop—singable, hummable and, most of all, with just a touch of sadness...
...bloody return home for some of the world's most hardened Islamist terrorists. Peace between Egypt and Israel was the issue over which Egyptian Islamic Jihad announced itself to the world, through the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat. A combination of harsh repression and a conscious decision to "export" the problem by shipping off radical Islamists by the planeload to Afghanistan to wage jihad against the Soviets blunted much of Islamic Jihad's impact inside Egypt, although both Jihad and the Gama'a took up a more bloody domestic campaign in the 1990s was eventually crushed by Mubarak...