Word: import
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This cruel form of happiness and justice has, of course, inspired a worldwide campaign against South Africa. After years of prodding by protest groups, the U.S. Congress in 1986 banned new corporate investment in South Africa and stopped the import of South African steel, iron, coal, uranium and textiles, as well as the export of computers and petroleum to that country. Similar punishments have been imposed by the European Community, the Commonwealth and Japan...
...conversations with Nakasone and other officials in Tokyo, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter and Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng urged Japan to act quickly to open markets. Still, the Japanese refused to discuss with the U.S. any lifting of an import ban on rice, a staple of the local economy. Said Lyng: "We are not going to wait forever...
Many of those changes either have been made or are under way. A program of tariff cuts and import liberalization has begun for a broad range of goods, including machinery, rubber tires and textiles. Rafael Alunan, a strongly nationalist local manufacturer of synthetic fibers, decries such moves as a "form of economic slavery, a way to keep us poor." Nonetheless, by April 1988, 90% of the country's imports should be free of quotas...
...gaffe-free campaign that provides scant fodder for his hungry rivals. Perhaps his only strategic error was to neglect the Iowa battleground for much of 1986. But Hart's Senate record wins Democratic applause, especially his consistent opposition to Reaganomics and his long advocacy of an oil-import fee. Hart's speeches have grown more evocative and thematic; technocratic details are now left to his position papers, which are voluminous enough to satisfy anyone's hunger for beef...
...ritualistic spring tours of Harvard Yard for pre-frosh (perspective freshmen at Swarthmore) take on new import. The high schoolers are doing more than soaking up the surroundings; they are taking note off Harvard's particular linguistics...