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Word: vaapenfabrikk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...would force many companies to give at least 60 days' notice of impending plant closings. The White House opposes as excessively restrictive a section that would require a ban for up to five years on the importation of any products made by Toshiba, the Japanese electronics company, and Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, a Norwegian government-owned manufacturer of computers and weapons. They were found last year to have violated export-control agreements by selling the Soviets high- tech equipment used to build quiet submarine propellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Making of A Mishmash | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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