Word: importance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obstacle looms. The Indians and Pakistanis may spurn ghee produced by American Holsteins and insist on good old water-buffalo ghee. But this need not daunt the Department of Agriculture. It can import water buffalo, fill the Wisconsin and Minnesota lake regions with them, get the 4-H Clubs leaping with water-buffalo milk-yield contests, buy the surplus milk, and turn out ghee just like Mother India used to make...
...modern man seeks the comfort and security of religious symbols. That is why many try to import strange Eastern religions ; others turn to demagogues and isms (which Jung regards as volcanic eruptions of the unconscious), and still others go to the analyst. "Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the roots of our being . . . Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us." Hence the man who cannot find religious symbols must be helped by the analyst to understand the symbols in his own unconscious. "I have treated many hundreds of patients . . . Among [those...
...watch his foreign minister sign Latin America's eleventh bilateral military assistance agreement with the U.S. Only once did he mention money out loud; at a press conference, where he spoke of Haiti's need for capital (a Haitian loan is in the works at the Export-Import Bank). Throughout the whole show, Magloire's commanding figure commanded attention. Back home, Haitians were proud of their President's quick grasp of the stately choreography of a full-dress Washington reception. At week's end Magloire left Washington for New York and Nashville to receive kudos...
...vast Imperial Chemical Industries are expected to follow quite soon. At Tandjong Priok, the capital's seaport, costly prefabricated school buildings are rusting on wharves because someone has forgotten them; at Bandung, in West Java, a $45 million munitions factory sits unassembled because the officials who imported it forgot also to import technicians to put it into operation...
...year ago, they agreed with the National Coal Board that a production increase of 2½% (about 5,000,000 tons) was "a reasonable minimum aim." But when 1954 figures were published, the gain was a mere 270,000 tons. As a result, the Coal Board had to import 2,000,000 tons during the year; in the first nine months it suffered a $9,800,000 loss...