Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sharp drop in demand for U.S. exports could slow or stall the soundest peacetime expansion in recent American history. Perhaps more worrisome is the danger Rubin warned against--that Japan and Korea might slash prices of exports to the U.S. to restart their economic engines, and thereby ignite a trade...
...player should be able to dominate a horse trade. Microsoft in the past seemed to regard the Federal Government as an industrial-era irrelevancy; Gates has donated startlingly little political money by CEO standards, and he opened an official lobbying office only two years ago. The company's disdain for D.C. was written between every line of its response to the Justice complaint, which Microsoft labeled "perverse...
From January through August of this year, the U.S. accepted $38.8 billion in Chinese exports and the Chinese imported $7.8 billion in American goods, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. While the $31 billion deficit is not the largest in any bilateral trade relationship, our balance of trade with China is extremely lopsided. If the current trend holds, the U.S. trade deficit with China will total more than $50 billion by the end of this year. The question is not whether we will deny most-favored-nation trade status to China because of its human-rights abuses...
...this suggests, the report concludes, that "in-store music could influence product choice." That revelation, if taken to heart, might tip the balance of trade. If foreign emporiums could be induced to play Sousa marches or gangsta rap, who knows how much Coors or Budweiser the U.S. might sell abroad...
...Over the summer, Pippen's name repeatedly surfaced in trade rumors, and the Bulls had hoped to use him to rebuild without sacrificing their title chances. But a deal with the Celtics fell through, and Pippen, a free agent next season, was thought to be returning to Chicago for another run at extending the Jordan dynasty...