Word: trade
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...dire need of foreign currency, the junta has sold off Burma's timber, oil and gas to multinational corporations, has turned a blind eye to the flourishing opium trade and has gone begging to multinational banks and international donors. The foreign reserves it gains allow the regime to buy weapons and maintain a brutal control exercised in the 1998 massacres of demonstrators and students. The military establishment has maintained its power over much of the country despite rebellion by oppressed ethnic minorities and the democratic election which the military lost...
Whether the women in the study group--or any other women at high risk for breast cancer--should take tamoxifen is complicated not only by the potential side effects but also by another confusing trade-off. Tamoxifen causes the most serious side effects in women over 50. But those are the women who have the highest odds of getting breast cancer. So many factors have to be weighed in the choice that researchers plan to produce a chart or software that will help women decide what to do. Unfortunately, it won't be ready for at least three months...
More than 100,000 prosperous conventioneers registered here last week for the broadcasting industry's annual trade bash. They included engineers, ad salesmen, station execs, computer techies, disk jockeys, videographers, all wearing National Association of Broadcasters badges, most of them basking in record profits...
...encouraging that Eritrean President Issaias Afewerki and other new-era African leaders understand the need for Africans to shape their own destinies, creating self-sustaining countries. The bipartisan African Growth and Opportunity Act promises to further this progress by encouraging economic reforms and promoting mutually beneficial trade with the U.S. ED ROYCE, U.S. Representative 39th District, California Washington...
Leave Africa alone! Let the Africans decide the scale of their economies, the most appropriate technologies to use and the level of industrialism that is desirable. Buy their products, yes. Offer favorable terms of trade, yes. But don't organize their economies for them by offering Western models of unlimited growth in a finite environment. Multinational corporations that do business in Africa should guarantee that most of the benefits go to Africans. MARK HACKLER Glenview...