Word: import
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smaller theaters in New York City have long been home to droll souls like Busch, as well as to camp cabaret like the French import Les Incroyables (70 endless minutes of cross-dressing, lip-synching and canned cancan) and innocent party-time musicals like Nunsense 2: The Sequel (this time the good sisters of Mount Saint Helen's School play "Pin the Braid on Sinead...
...Brown calculates, India will need to import 44 million tons of grain annually to help feed its 1.5 billion people. By the same year, an increasingly industrialized China will need to purchase 200 million tons of grain abroad for its 1.6 billion people, as much as is now exported by all the world's countries. The result will be a spike in food prices that will trigger "wholesale social disintegration" in Africa, Latin America and other poor regions. "China's scarcity will become the world's scarcity," Brown predicts...
...getting somewhat the same feeling. Finally, finally, they are beating their Japanese, German, South Korean, Taiwanese, name-the-country rivals -- and in products like autos, machine tools and computer chips, where a few years ago they were being trounced. The U.S. firms are not only turning back an import invasion of American markets but also triumphing in so-called third-country export markets and even swiping some sales in Japan and other tormentor countries. The closest thing to an official world championship of business is top rank among the nations studied by the Swiss-based World Economic Forum, and last...
Also, though exports are now among the fastest-growing items in the U.S. economy, they are still running well behind imports, resulting in a gargantuan and growing trade deficit. That, however, comes about in part because the country must import such huge quantities of raw products, from coffee and bananas to crude oil, that it either cannot produce at all or not in the quantities it needs. The great fear of a few years ago was that foreign rivals would also take over manufacturing businesses, particularly high-tech firms, and reduce the U.S. work force to hamburger flipping. That fear...
...with the U.S. banana producers in Hawaii, even though the banana output in Hawaii doesn't amount to a hill of peels. The French threatened to scuttle the public-works plank of the GATT agreement unless Germany accepted the banana plank. The Germans refused, insisting on their right to import bananas at will, guaranteed by the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Back in the islands, the Prime Minister of the island of Dominica, Dame Eugenia Charles, has warned that if her people can't make a living on bananas, they might take up cocaine...