Word: importance
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Reason for Optimism. Hong Kong's ultimate fate depends on two unpredictable factors: the behavior of its neighbor, Red China and, to a lesser degree, the import policies of its best customers, the U.S. and Britain...
...matter of emphasis. The Faculty emphasized anti-ROTC sentiment, but conceded ROTC a place at Harvard; the Corporation has turned the tables by stressing the decision to keep ROTC while minimizing the import of the Faculty reforms...
...about, half conscious of the Oedipal and castration complexes that rule his life. In fact, self-consciousness becomes his hang-up. At one point he pauses over a particular problem to ask, "now, why is that? is there an essay somewhere I can read on that? is it of import? or shall I go on?" Portnoy, with his daydreams and his failures, is actually much closer to that other Joycean hero, Leopold Bloom. The more Portnoy dredges up his past, the more it cripples him. He never achieves even Stephen's nominative freedom, for the mind is the one part...
...launching new Greek projects worth more than $75 million, including vegetable canning and Coca-Cola bottling plants. Last week Pappas and Chicago's Armour and Co. jointly proposed to the government an ambitious cattle-raising venture that would eventually make Greece self-sufficient in meat. He aims to import 75,000 head of cattle and set up plants for processing meat and producing powdered milk, butter and cheese...
What worries Washington is that value-added taxes are refunded on exports and imposed as special border taxes on U.S. products entering European countries. That tends to add 6% to 23% to the prices of U.S. goods above and beyond import duties. VAT is sanctioned by the 21-year-old General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, to which the U.S. subscribes. Under GATT rules, the U.S. can neither match such export subsidies nor raise similar import barriers because it relies chiefly on other forms of taxation. Except for excise taxes on a few items-autos, alcohol and tobacco...