Word: import
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heroes" leads off the final and most successful side. The Stages version, though it cannot approach the German-language studio import in poetry or sound, has a dramatic sound that showcases Bowie's vocal power effectively. "What in the World" and "Beauty and the Beast" are rockers which combine haunting power riffs with strong singing and enough electronic flourishes to give Bowie the feel...
...with a local INS crackdown on undocumented laborers from the nearby Mexican town of Ojinaga. The growers took out newspaper advertisements requesting 4,000 domestic agricultural workers at the minimum farm wage of $2.20 an hour. They got 300 replies. Finally the growers were allowed by the INS to import the help they needed ?from Ojinaga...
...public. Japan's aggressive MITI (Ministry of International Trade) and the big trading houses had arranged for the visitors more than 3,000 interviews with potential buyers, and a few sales had been prudently lined up ahead of time. When Mrs. Kreps criticized Japan's reluctance to import, her hosts smiled and politely applauded...
...Hume, claims he has invented a machine that packages liquids like yogurt and orange juice at one-third the operating cost of comparable Japanese equipment. So far Hume has found no takers. DuPont's Lind joined the tour only because DuPont last year managed to push through import approval for its new blood analyzers in the remarkably short period of four months (vs. the usual nine to 18 months waiting time); DuPont has already sold 20 of the devices at $150,000 each to the nationalized hospitals. Lind hoped to line up appointments with government decision makers who could...
...Japanese government had warned the Americans not to expect quick results. Yet the very fact that the mission was invited to Japan raised hopes that the barriers of high tariffs, endless import-icense red tape and discriminatory quotas were being lowered. The experience of the U.S. visitors was sobering. Quick fix trade deals like the one negotiated last January between the U.S. and Japan and whirlwind tours of businessmen are no way to solve the critical imbalances in world trade caused by Japan's insatiable urge to export and parsimonious reluctance to import. In fact, such cosmetic exercises only...