Word: sri
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only in the U.S., but in countries as disparate as Sri Lanka, Canada and Algeria, there is an attraction to the new, incentive economics. Among developing nations, those that have prospered most have had the freest, most market-oriented economies: Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, among others. In industrial Europe, incentive economics is making particularly rapid progress...
...fiction and non-fiction (2001: A Space Odyssey, Rendezvous with Rama), the prolific futurist has also had the pleasure of seeing some of his imaginative ideas come true, including the establishment of worldwide communications satellites, which he forecast in 1945. Clarke, who is chancellor at the University of Sri Lanka at Moratuwa, last appeared in the pages of TIME a decade ago, when man was about to take his first steps on the moon. Here he assesses the future...
...government's success will be determined largely by two key undertakings: >As part of an assault on unemployment, Sri Lanka plans to build five major dams and reservoirs over the next six years. The $1.2 billion project, more than half financed by foreign aid, will employ 225,000 workers and add greatly to electricity generation and farm irrigation...
...part of its open-door policy toward foreign investment, Sri Lanka has established a free-trade zone north of Colombo, where investors can be granted exemption from import duties and taxes...
...communications, six factories have already been set up and more are abuilding. Some will make work gloves, tea bags and latex rubber threads, but most will produce garments for the U.S. market. Indeed, many companies have been attracted because the U.S. does not yet impose import quotas on Sri Lankan garments. Typically, Jeffrey Bogatin, owner of a New York-based garment business, was attracted by wage costs of 73? an hour and a five-year tax holiday. Says he: "I'm shocked that there is not more of a rush by industry to this place. The people are educated...