Word: exportable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gulf war. For that matter, Martin Marietta shares classified contracts with Thomson-CSF for sophisticated terminally guided munitions. James Bell, chairman and president of Thomson-CSF Inc., the American subsidiary, told the U.S. Congress, "Thomson-CSF has an impeccable record on compliance with American security regulations and export controls...
...train, whose operations are subsidized by the government, is now being considered for several routes in the U.S. -- a profitable triumph for French industry. In addition, the government is laying plans for a waste tax that will finance advanced waste- treatment plants, which could lead to an entire export industry...
...amount of dissolved oxygen and ammonia in the water, along with its acidity and turbidity. The authority also spurred the development of a remote-sensing water monitor, as well as an experimental technique that injects iron into stream beds to neutralize polluting phosphates. All three inventions are considered good export prospects...
...should wait by the mailbox. But American industries and individuals do stand to gain materially from a successful Uruguay Round. The pact, as it stands, contemplates a one-third drop in average tariffs and safeguards against hidden export subsidies. It would also provide a stronger forum for settling trade disputes amicably than unilateral reprisals, such as the $1 billion in new tariffs on European goods that the U.S. threatened last week in retaliation for E.C. subsidies on oilseeds like soybeans...
Later, the author goes on and states:"...the only time foreign investors got really excited about Peru was during the 19th century when 80 percent of the government revenues were derived from the export of guano (which is, well, bird shit)." Guano is a fertilizer obtained in the coastal islands that was used extensively to spur agricultural output, feeding an increasing world population. Does it matter to Peru's current crisis that it exported guano in the 19th century...