Word: exportable
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...Portugal Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau (to the Portuguese, Guinea-Bissau is "Portuguese Guinea") as well as Mozambique and Angola experience is explained. Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau are categorized by Europeans as "Colonies" of Portugal. Portugal is a very poor country with few natural resources. She is able to export very little. In order to maintain an economic position above bankruptcy, she must depend upon external aid for support. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization supports her to a large extent (especially military) but she receives the bulk of her support from Africa. By stealing the resources of these countries, maintaining...
...Unfortunately, we are unable to export, because although the quality is excellent, it is not even sufficient for local consumption. We plan to increase production, however, and from 2000, for example, or 20,000 sheep that the area has now, to increase them ten-fold...
Aided by widespread publicity, including the movie Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice and Jane Howard's bestseller, Please Touch, the movement is spreading explosively. Two years ago, when California's Esalen Institute first sought to export its own brand of the new gospel east, 90 curious New Yorkers showed up for a five-day encounter group in Manhattan. A similar event last year drew 850; last April, 6,000. Since January 1969, when Donald Clark counted 37 "growth centers"-established sites for the development of human or group potentials-the census has risen past...
...from last year. Beaujolais, the first wine to travel, will not arrive in the U.S until next March, and this year's Champagne will not be in American shops before 1974. Still, spokesmen for French vintners grow euphoric when discussing prospects in the U.S., their largest single export market. Last year Americans spent $70 million for French alcoholic drinks, mostly wine. In this year's first half, U.S. imports of French wine climbed 30%. The demand for quality wines, whether foreign or domestic, is growing faster than supply...
...built by Philips, the Dutch electrical giant, and Plessy, a leading British electronics firm. Taiwan's Finance Minister, K.T. Li, cites "the availability of inexpensive labor" to foreign manufacturers as a prime reason for locating in a free trade zone that the government has set up. Companies can export products from the zone without paying duty, but they are not allowed to make anything there for sale in Taiwan. Some 120 companies so far have built plants in the zone, including Philips and General Electric...