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...many productions as the Great White Way -- including many more new dramas and a much more varied range of revivals -- and commonly does them better. In recent years British superiority even extended to Broadway's signature genre, the musical. As a succession of London hits was packed up for export (and runaway profit), Broadway started to seem like just an early stop on the international touring circuit...
...Government connection surfaced when it turned out that a fourth of the export credits extended by BNL had been backed by the Commodity Credit Corporation. The CCC, an arm of the Department of Agriculture, provides guarantees to spur sales of U.S. farm products. But the department's own inquiry revealed that the CCC had no idea whether the credits it had backed were used to purchase U.S. farm commodities that actually reached Iraq, or were resold to third countries for hard currency. Possibly some of the credit guarantees backed shipments of nonagricultural products like transportation spare parts...
...spite of Saddam's noisy saber rattling this year, Washington has done nothing to tighten controls over exports of equipment with potentially dangerous applications. The State Department has not declared Iraq a "country of concern," a classification that would impose tighter export controls on a long list of items that might have military applications. In the absence of such a classification, the Commerce Department is currently considering "on a case-by-case basis" 63 applications for licenses to export suspect equipment. The department did belatedly drop Iraq from the itinerary of a special aerospace trade mission by American firms...
Another problem is that the privatization of Poland's vast state-owned sector, much of it antiquated and unprofitable, is proving much more difficult than most economists imagined. When shares in a profitable import-export company were offered to the public recently, only 20% were purchased. A parliamentary committee is studying other ways of unloading state-owned companies, including a novel plan first discussed in Czechoslovakia that would create a capital market by giving shares to each citizen. The shares could later be traded on a stock exchange. "We have to remember that society has been pauperized," says Andrzej Bratkowski...
...controlled by government-run corporations that allow no competition. For another, the U.S. objects to the Indian government's restrictions on all new or expanded investment by outsiders. In most cases, foreign investors are limited to a 40% equity stake in an enterprise, and they must agree to export more than they import, among other requirements...