Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long since got used to the ways of this made-in-America faith, but the rest of the world often treats it as an unwanted import. In Sweden, young male Witnesses regularly spend a total of ten months in prison for refusing to accept compulsory military service. In the Soviet Union, dozens of Jehovah's Witnesses are found guilty each year on charges that range from subversion to smuggling...
...same bill is Victim, a British import revolving around homosexuality. Its point (a good one) is that England's sex laws, which make homosexuality a criminal offense, are ineffective, barbaric, cruel, and an inducement to blackmail. Dirk Bogarde, as a happily married barrister with a homosexual past, turns in a fine performance. Victim drags in spots, but its point of view is admirable and is expressed without pious moralizing
There is a tomato famine in the land. So much time has passed since Hollywood last turned up a really luscious girl that even casting directors are reading Playboy. For the last several years, Hollywood has had to import its glamour, and its latest is a westbound CARE package from Germany named Elke Sommer...
Specifically, he objected to the Alianza's taking credit for aid under U.S. Public Law 480, which allows the sale of surplus food for soft local currency, and for the operations of the Export-Import Bank, which has in fact been less active lately. He accused the U.S. Congress of lopping 40% from what he considered a Kennedy promise of $1 billion-worth of aid in Latin America in 1962-when all that Kennedy actually requested was $600 million. And he found a "lack of coordination among U.S. organizations designed to finance the Alianza, and lack of a central...
...Latin American spiral is largely the result of instability in the peso, escudo or cruzeiro, which in turn increases import prices and wrecks wage levels. In economically advanced nations, however, the increases are a penalty of unpoliced success. Expanding industrial output in the postwar years, these nations tried to avoid labor shortages with higher pay, more overtime and lavish fringe benefits-until wages finally outpaced production. At the same time, increased consumer spending competed for a relatively stable supply of goods and steadily pushed up prices, particularly of food. Britain slowed its spiraling cost of living by instituting...