Word: productions
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...President encouraged Congress to strengthen existing laws against foreign infringement of U.S. patents and copyrights and against "dumping," which is generally defined as the sale of a product in export markets for a lower price than it commands at home; he asked that Congress establish a dumping test that could be applied to "nonmarket" (read Communist) economies. But Reagan did not propose any specific new legislation. The burden of his talk: Yes, there is discrimination against U.S. trade abroad and unfair penetration of the American market, but it is best countered "through negotiation" and administrative action, not blunderbuss curbs...
Born on July 11, 1899, White grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. The product of a typical middle-class childhood, he referred to himself in high school as a "writing fool...
...Liquor already is the most highly taxed consumer product in the United States, more than cigarettes, more than gasoline," Tate said...
...Jobs and Sculley bickered, Apple's business deteriorated. The long-awaited Macintosh computer failed to make deep inroads into the office market after its introduction in January 1984. The advanced machine has so far come nowhere near equaling the success of the Apple II, the company's first major product. One reason: Jobs' insistence on building the Macintosh in a self-contained way, which has made it all but impossible to add new components to existing machines to boost their power. Jobs' single-minded attention to the Macintosh and his indifference to other Apple products exacerbated tensions between...
...haggling went on through the night last week as Japan's top finance and defense officials debated a perennially sensitive question: whether or not to exceed an informal cap on military spending that since 1976 has been held to less than l% of the country's gross national product. Finally, the ministers agreed on what the government later called an "epochal" solution. They approved a five-year, $76 billion defense spending plan that would involve annual average outlays...