Over time, joint ventures spread, using foreign equipment and inexpensive Chinese labor.

The advantages include compatibility with foreign equipment and conference call-type communication.

The agency is also using its foreign equipment to find out how well United States equipment performs.

Werknummer 290202 was given the foreign equipment number FE-614, and later T2-614.

An attache might ask a foreign official for information about a piece of foreign equipment.

The company denied those were connected to the car's design or its parts and blamed "foreign electrical equipment" found on top of the exhaust system.

The chief problem, Pravda explained, has been the industry's reliance on foreign equipment.

In this situation external finance for the purchase of foreign equipment and expertise is provided by international banks.

The utilities have also been reluctant to spend on foreign equipment, steering contracts to affiliates instead.

"We have never tolerated foreign military equipment on our terrain!"