Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forbidden by the American-imposed constitution to buy modern weaponry, Japan has been able to concentrate investment on automated industry. The destruction of its factories by wartime bombing left it free to rebuild with the latest technology. To do that quickly, the new industrialists bought patents and licenses from everywhere. Says Shigeo Nagano, chairman of Nippon Steel, which today produces more tonnage than any other company in the world: "So long as we had to start from nothing, we wanted the most modern plant. We selected the cream of the world's technology. We learned from America, Germany. Austria...
Even two weeks ago, the prospect would have seemed incredible. After years of xenophobia and anti-American fulminations, after an era in which China seemed as tightly closed to Americans as the Forbidden City ever was to outsiders-here was the Chinese Premier being amiable to Americans. Here, after years of hearing that Americans were foreign devils, were masses of schoolchildren smiling and waving to the U.S. visitors...
American Optical, through its Austrian subsidiary, has sold medical research microscopes to China. Overseas branches of Monsanto have shipped a variety of chemicals, including materials for aspirin and rubber. The subsidiaries are forbidden by the U.S. Government to sell any of 600 "strategic items," but the embargo list leaves plenty of room for trade. General Motors, for example, sold $682,000 worth of diesel engines and spare parts in 1970 to Roberto Perlini Co., an Italian truck manufacturer, who sent them to China along with 80 Perlini trucks...
...Commerce Department is preparing a new list of items for direct sale to China. The list will ban the export of almost all industrial goods but is likely to permit sales of Pharmaceuticals, foods and other commodities. The Chinese appear to want a great many American products, particularly the forbidden items, including delicate research equipment, bulldozers and trucks. But Peking has little to offer in return, aside from hog bristles, cashmere, embroidered silk and linen, tung oil and some rare metals. Hercules, Inc. is the only U.S. company known to have bought any Chinese goods recently: $1,000,000 worth...
...quantum leap in man's abilities to reshape himself evokes a sense of uneasiness, a memory of Eden. Eat of the forbidden fruit, God warns, and "you shall surely die." Eat, promises the serpent, and "you shall be like...