Word: extraction
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...office in Zagreb, for instance, were either worthless or expired. In Sudan aid workers have received contact-lens solution and appetite stimulants--a bizarre contribution to a country experiencing famine. Health workers in Rwanda are still sorting through crates of "odorless" garlic pills, ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn out to be useless." Since drugs sometimes arrive poorly labeled, often in a foreign language, errors do occur. Three years ago, 11 Lithuanian women were...
...also contributes to lower levels of productivity and standards of living." Yet he later advocates the subsidizing of American companies in foreign markets "until all foreign companies go bankrupt" after which "American companies could then assume control of the market...and the United States would be free to extract economic rents indefinitely." This is a clear contradiction; the benefits of competition are presumably the same, whether in the US computer industry or the Japanese kimono market...
...most accessible to Netheads--is Firefly http://www.ffly.com) Agents' flashy new "music-recommendation system." Firefly lets you rate records, tapes and CDs and then pools those ratings to create a "map" of your musical tastes. With thousands of users' tastes pinpointed on that same map, it becomes simple to extract dead-on recommendations from the ratings lists of your closest "neighbors." From the mingling of large numbers of relatively simple pieces of information, in other words, an uncanny sort of acumen emerges, able to make suggestions even your best friend might miss...
While the Clintons may have been unaware of the financial details of the venture, they were keenly interested in whatever tax breaks they could extract from it. One afternoon in the Governor's office, Bill mentioned to Jim that he should "talk to Hillary about taxes because she and Jim Blair have made some money in commodities...
...American companies could then assume control of the market and extract economic rents which would accrue to the American owners of these companies. The continued existence of barriers of entry would keep other companies from entering the market, and the United States would be free to extract economic rents indefinitely. As long as these rents outweigh the initial subsidy, the American economy benefits from such strategic trade policy...