Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What spurred the investments was Tokyo's agreement last June to lift trade restrictions that limited imports of U.S. beef to 14% of Japan's market, which last year totaled 676,000 tons. Since Japanese meat companies expect to import much more U.S.-grown beef, they realize that if they own some of the American cattle operations, they will have a larger stake in the profits...
...trade restraints begin to fall this month, beef sales in Japan are likely to boom. Cuts like filet mignon, which sells for up to $43 per lb. in Tokyo, should become much more affordable. Thanks in part to spacious grazing land and plentiful feed, American-grown beef is much less expensive to produce than the Japanese variety. "In three to five years, we expect to be selling three times our current monthly volume of 1,200 head of cattle," says Kazuhiro Ogasawara, vice president of Mt. Shasta Beef...
Commercial trade in human kidneys does seem grotesque. But it's a bit hard to say why. After all, the moral logic of capitalism does not stop at the epidermis. That logic holds, in a nutshell, that if an exchange is voluntary, it leaves both parties better off. In one case, a Turk sold a kidney for (pounds)2,500 ($4,400) because he needed money for an operation for his daughter. Capitalism in action: one person had $4,400 and wanted a kidney, another person had a spare kidney and wanted $4,400, so they did a deal. What...
After leaving office in 1987, Collins spent a year at the University of Louisville teaching international trade and economic development. As yet, she does not know what she will do when she leaves Harvard this summer, although she owns a small consulting firm back home...
...Daminozide (trade name: Alar), a chemical that is used chiefly on red apples and that penetrates the fruit's skin, is the greatest cancer hazard. The NRDC predicts that daminozide use may cause one case of cancer for every 4,200 preschoolers. Though the percentage of children affected -- 0.024% -- is minute, the risk is 240 times the standard considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency -- one case of cancer per million...