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What really fuels Mozambique's climb, though, is the energy of individuals tackling problems from the bottom up. Take the "Italian roads." Instead of paying foreign companies for expensive foreign-built, high-maintenance asphalt roads, local authorities are copying a cheap labor-intensive, low-tech alternative pioneered in Italy: roads constructed of small, handmade stone or concrete pavers that can be laid directly on the sandy soil and individually replaced when rains wash them...
...Americans head for the beach or the mountains this summer, the odds are about 1 to 4 that they will be driving a foreign-built car. The chances are even higher that they will fill their tanks with foreign fuel, since about half the 300 million gal. of gasoline bought each day are made from imported petroleum. What few American consumers realize is that an increasing amount of the fuel they use is not only shipped, refined and delivered but also pumped into their car by foreign producers. To paraphrase the old Texaco jingle, The man who wears the star...
American manufacturers were soon suffering as foreign-built electronic robots stormed the U.S. market. At Unimation, sales dropped from $70 million in 1983 -- the year Westinghouse bought the firm -- to $45 million in 1985, then to $38 million last year. Overall, Japanese robotmakers account for 28% of all sales in the U.S. Worldwide, Japanese sales exceed those of U.S. competitors...
When oil was first shut off in the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, Detroit found itself in serious trouble. Because American automen had few small cars to sell, customers flocked to imported models. By then foreign-built cars had won a reputation for fuel efficiency that most U.S. cars could not approach...
...encourage U.S. private investment, Mondale said, the Carter Administration will ask for congressional authority to extend the guarantee of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. to include China, thus responding to the new Chinese investment law that allows up to 100% ownership of foreign-built projects. The U.S. moves came as a relief to Chinese leaders, who had been chafing at the slow pace of practical cooperation with...