Word: importance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he had decided last spring term to stay on in Cambridge for the summer, rather than motor to Mexico with his mother, Vag did not realize the import of his choice. Now he was in the middle of a world he could not come to terms with--a world far distant from the sedate evenings spent with a cribbage board that sparked his proper life...
...being called a "hired lackey of the trusts." After the lunch, where Lopes winningly upheld the need for foreign capital, the attack faded in all but the Reddest of newspapers. Then he got down to top priority work-negotiating a $150 million emergency loan with the U.S. Export-Import Bank...
...draft recommendations for standards now being considered, including standards for such big export items as steel and textile machinery. Many standards may therefore be set up contrary to U.S. design, shutting U.S. goods out of nations that adopt them as effectively as do high tariffs, currency restrictions or import quotas...
...vote with him. A vote against reciprocal trade, one explained, would cost him White House support for a bill that he badly wanted for his district. Other helpful Administration tactics: weakening the tariff urge among Congressmen from oil and mining states by announcing a program of voluntary oil-import curbs and a plan to stockpile up to 150,000 tons of U.S.-mined copper (see BUSINESS...
...suddenly it was Cavan who was getting a call. Aboard the favorite, worried Jockey Ismael Valenzuela went to the whip. Tim Tarn wobbled badly. His fine stride suddenly looked awkward; he was in trouble. Snug on the rail, Cavan was reaching out and running away. The liver-colored Irish import breezed under the wire with ears pricked, winning by an easy six lengths...