Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back heavy subsidies to Canada's have-not regions. Nonetheless, hardscrabble New Brunswick last year registered 3% growth, more than any other province. Frank McKenna, the provincial premier, attributes much of the gain to the reduction of trade barriers among the Atlantic provinces and to growing opportunities for export to the U.S. "The launching of free trade has reshaped our relationships with the federal government in many ways," he says. "But overall, our experience has been positive. It means working harder and smarter. What we're doing here is taking a lemon and making lemonade...
...scrap began when Washington threatened to add a 200% tariff (thus tripling prices) on white wine imported from Europe -- unless the E.C. agrees by Dec. 5 to extraordinary cuts in subsidies that encourage production of oilseeds. In the U.S. view, these subsidies unfairly limit export sales of American soybeans. But France is trying to stall any such reductions until after parliamentary elections in March. President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists face defeat as it is, but the anger of farmers with reduced incomes might cost them even more votes and seats than expected. Reasoning: it's better for a successor center...
...responded by publicly calling Iraq's human rights practices "abysmal." Some officials wanted to do more and proposed putting Iraq back on the terrorist list. Officials prepared to tighten export controls and canceled another $500 million in commodity export credits because the Iraqi program was tainted by fraud. But Baghdad was still repaying its loans, and senior officials figured any harsh sanctions would only intensify Saddam's paranoia about U.S. intentions. Just days before the invasion, Bush continued to oppose restrictions proposed by Congress...
Administration officials say there was little they would have done differently. The U.S. was giving Iraq agricultural export credits that helped American farmers. Saddam's Arab neighbors and many European countries were advising Washington to be nice to Iraq and would have resisted, out of fear or Arab solidarity, any drive toward containment. The U.S. did not sell arms directly to Iraq. The dual-use equipment sold by the U.S. was not cutting-edge technology but rather more generic items and processes that could have been bought in 10 other countries...
...broadside in the debate, Bush declared that "there hasn't been one single scintilla of evidence that there's any U.S. technology involved" in Saddam's nuclear program. In fact, as Bush later admitted, U.N. inspectors found advanced American products in Iraqi nuclear-weapons labs, purchased with proper export licenses. "Our own records show U.S. computers went to virtually every known nuclear and ballistic missile site," says Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in Washington. But it is also true that much more dual-use equipment -- and military weapons -- came from France, Germany, the Soviet...