Word: import
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full import of the U.S. State Department's attitude toward the Chinese Nationalists in recent months is measurable only in terms of the Nationalists' political position on Formosa. If this position was understood by the State Department, the State Department stands convicted of the deliberate sabotage of the Chinese government; if this position was not understood, the State Department stands convicted of avoidable ignorance...
...urgency and import of the news from Asia has moved the editors to alter TIME'S news format for this issue. As a result, in National Affairs' accustomed place you will find an eleven-page special section called War In Asia...
...doubt as to the import of what the U.S. and the U.N. did last week was dispelled by the world reaction. No event since V-J Day had had such an impact on world opinion...
...walk through Prague's Wenceslas Square," says Schmidt, "and see ... on nine-tenths of the shops ... the sign 'Narodni Podnik' which means National Enterprise." Nearly 100% of industry, wholesale trade and export-import trade, and 80% of shops have been communalized. Although this economic concentration in the hands of the government is capable of generating great power, Communists are finding that compared with the selective precision of private enterprise, nationalized enterprise on such a scale is often a blunt instrument. Thus Rude Pravo, central Communist Party organ, complained recently that so many sieves were being delivered...
Worried by this muddled federal finance and by a partial government import ban designed to save foreign exchange, wealthy citizens began late last year to convert their pesos into dollars for investment in the U.S. This flight of capital was finally halted in February of this year after the U.S. restricted conversion of pesos into dollars by suspending the free convertibility clause of the Philippine Trade Act of 1946. But by then the Philippines' 1945 dollar reserve of $658 million had dropped to $220 million...