Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oliveira Campos, 48, a U.S.-trained economist and Brazil's onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Campos is doing more than trying to reform an economy; he is trying to discipline a national mentality. For a starter, he eliminated $200 million a year in government wheat, oil and newsprint import subsidies, thus halting a wasteful drain on Brazil's treasury. He then ended labor's inflation-producing 75%-to-100% wage hikes, slowed down the money presses, and began reforming Brazil's sievelike tax system to plug loopholes and improve collections...
...form of religious training. But just as Protestant Sunday schools suffer a high teen-age dropout rate, only 12% of Jewish boys carry on with religious training after their bar mitzvahs. Despite starting salaries of $6,000 a year, there is a nationwide teacher shortage. Many schools have to import teachers from Israel, or settle for "Jewish baby sitters," whose piety outruns their professional skills...
HALF A SIXPENCE. Tommy Steele spreads a grin across the stage and injects a British musical import with sparkle and bounce...
...interests in apartment buildings, supermarkets and the rapidly rising $1,600,000 President Hotel. Mrs. Suni Telan, 44, has just announced that she intends to sell stock in a new holding company that will be set up to control her far-flung business fiefdom, which includes hotels, an export-import firm, rice mills, teak and mining companies, an aluminum-fabricating plant, and real estate...
...JOURNALIST brings not only talent and effort to any story he handles, but also the store of experience that lies behind him. In some cases that pattern of the past has little import; in others it becomes quite important. The latter was true for Correspondent John Mulliken who did the reporting for this week's cover story. Mulliken and General Johnson have quite a lot in common...