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Remembering how the islands kept them in fresh fruit during hard times, the English decided to protect their loyal suppliers with tariffs and quotas levied against the giant banana producers on the South American mainland. This quota system was adopted by the European Economic Community in a close vote in 1993, with several banana-eating countries strongly opposed, most notably the Germans...
...free-market side of the banana split you've got the Germans, who want all they can eat (in this case, 19 lbs. per person per year) at low prices; the trio of giant producers, Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte, which together account for 60% of the world output and want open borders and a fair fight, and may the best banana win; and the various banana republics where Dole, Chiquita and Del Monte operate...
...century," sighed Dwayne Andreas, the chairman of Archer Daniels Midland, the vast Illinois-based food-products and grain company. "This is the biggest step toward free trade that has ever been taken in the history of the world." Said Maurice ("Hank") Greenberg, chairman of American International Group, the giant insurance company: "If the United States Congress fails to ratify the Uruguay Round, it will set back any hope of financial services being liberalized." Worse, he said, it would "tarnish" the image of his company. "We have been representing the argument in favor of freer trade, and here our own country...
...Londax rice herbicide and started up a rival firm to produce it. DuPont's secret was not protected under Chinese law. Undaunted, DuPont plans to invest $16 million in a joint venture in Shanghai in 1995 that will manufacture equipment for integrated circuits. But this time the Delaware-based giant is trying to be smart about reducing its exposure to theft: in his August trip to Beijing, chairman Edgar Woolard lobbied Chinese President Jiang Zemin to safeguard the patents of manufacturers...
...economist and columnist Lawrence Kudlow, and Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley. Observes Kristol, a senior Bush Administration official: "Newt's a complicated man; there's a lot of ego there, and there's a little bit of susceptibility to grandiose promises. He can sort of invent this giant scheme for the future, and his acolytes tell him that it's great." Still, said one participant, "I don't agree with Newt on everything, but there's virtually no other elected official in Washington who could or would sit at the table and argue about ideas...