Word: import
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only was this union-company role reversal ironic, but failure of UAW leaders to push through more concessions also dashed hoped that an era of "new cooperation" between companies and unions had begun with the 1979 "bailout" contract. Unions in the import-battered industrial mainstays of the U.S. economy--steel, autos, and rubber--seemed about ready to hold down labor costs in exchange for job security and more voice in corporate decisions. Such "cooperation" has been a central theme of recent "re-industrialization" plans designed to arrest the desperate decline of the U.S. economy, Sen. Gary Hart...
...movie that has better caught the flavor of life down at the supporting-player level (where you do your best work in little theaters for audiences of a hundred and your worst work on television for audiences of millions) than Christopher Frank's wise, rueful, often comical little import from France...
...trampled underfoot in the headlong rush to place women--any women--in high positions. It also denigrates women and tends to limit the number of real women powerholders, the Sansone candidacy being a case in point. It also keeps women out of major positions which carry more than symbolic import. State parties are quite willing to nominate women for lower, largely figurehead posts, but there are currently no women governors. Only two gubernatorial candidates nationwide today are female...
...many, France seems to be playing the "oil card" in the Middle East, to the detriment of the Jews. The French must import 75 percent of their energy, so self-interest often supersedes morality, and the French often come across as avidly anti-Israel...
...conjunction with other western countries, the United States responded to Mexico's troubles with a patchwork bailout plan consisting of emergency food import credits, advance payments for Mexican crude oil, and $1.85 billion in loans from western central banks. But the real keys to the bailout were two longer-term proposals designed to restore Mexico's ability to pay off its debt in the future: $5 billion in credits from the International Monetary Fund and a $10 billion moratorium on debt repayments to major private banks. Both of these key provisions are contingent upon Mexico's acceptance of a stringent...