Word: import
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...prevent a repetition or escalation of the food protests that reportedly erupted last year at the Gorky and Togliatti auto works, the Soviet leaders are expected to import a record 40 million tons of grain. Some Western experts believe that Soviet ports will have trouble handling such heavy traffic. Much of the grain will come from the U.S., where a bounteous harvest has depressed crop prices and made farmers anxious to sell their surplus abroad. A delegation from the U.S. Agriculture Department travels to Moscov this week with an offer to sell the Soviets 10 million more tons of grain...
...latest import spree will further strain Soviet finances. The country's trade deficit with the West-about $2.7 billion in the first quarter alone-is swelling at a record pace. Every dollar spent on grain is one less that can be used for badly needed high-technology goods, including computers and oil-drilling equipment...
...means. For three decades the government rolled over its debts from one year to the next, confident that the steadily rising price for coffee, which accounts for one-third of its trade, would bail it out. But gradually, even as it continued to launch more public-works projects and import more luxury goods, Costa Rica got snared in the same dilemma that is afflicting countries throughout the Third World: the price of its exports dwindled, while those of its imports soared. In 1977 an 85-lb. sack of coffee produced enough foreign exchange to buy 13 bbl. of oil; today...
Most economists in San José agree that Carazo, after his inauguration in 1978, unwittingly made everything worse. A politician who craved to be liked, he failed to devalue the colón and establish strict import controls. He continued to subsidize the prices of gasoline, food and imported luxury items. When he could not borrow any more, he printed additional money to pay government employees and avoid unemployment...
...tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court," and legal experts generally agree that the power to create implies the power to regulate and even abolish. Moreover, the Constitution awards the Supreme Court complete appellate jurisdiction, "with such exceptions, and under such regulations as Congress shall make." Experts disagree on the import of this little-exercised grant of authority. Some agree with Northwestern Law Professor Martin Redish that "if Congress truly desires, it can do almost anything it wants to the jurisdiction of the lower courts or the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court." Many other experts, among them Cardozo Law School...