Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First he prohibited the import of Rhodesian chrome. Then came a ban on cash-and-carry trade, which supplemented an earlier crackdown on credit deals. Finally, having presumably run out of trade barriers, Wilson decided to test his thesis that most of the Rhodesian civil service is loyal to the Crown, and will prove it if given the chance...
...life of the loan. Conventional mortgage rates have already started to climb-to as much as 6¼% in San Francisco, Houston, Cincinnati and elsewhere-and are likely to rise a bit more. Hardest hit will be the Southeast, the Southwest and the Far West, which have to import much of their mortgage money from the cities of the capital-rich Northeast...
...have gone from shoe leather to traffic jams overnight," says a conservative Barcelona banker, and the analogy is apt. Ten years ago, Spain produced no automobiles, and foreign cars were so expensive (the import duty...
Golden Eggs. Every boom brings its dislocation, and Spain's pell-mell rush to industrialize is no exception. The flood of workers to the cities has sharply cut farm production, forcing Spain to import food. Government spending to feed the development plan has brought a new round of inflation at home, and a horrendous $2 billion trade deficit abroad-too much even for tourist dollars to make up for. Many economists fear that Spain is trying to do too much too quickly. "Our economy is the goose that lays the golden egg," warns Ullastres...
Newspapers were once content to dig up their own local news and run some wire-service copy on news of the rest of the world. Then they gradually began to import other material: columns, features, crossword puzzles, even editorials from various syndicates. Today they can add luster to their pages with "supplemental" news sent over leased wires by a handful of big metropolitan dailies. By paying anywhere from $50 to $850 a week, depending on their size and location, the papers, in effect, rent a Washington bureau and a string of foreign correspondents that they could not possibly afford...