Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ashby Commission proposed a plan which it called "LEAP"--Loan-Educational Aid Program. Under the plan, the Nigerian government would send natives to colleges in the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth countries, and the United States, and at the same time would import British and American teachers to supply existing needs...
...Uganda, where women in the West Nile district traditionally wear only Eve's fig leaf fore and aft, there is now a brisk import trade in bras and pants, but dresses are still considered slightly immoral. Often U.S. clothes must be altered abroad because they are too big; in pigmy Africa men frequently wear women's coats. There is a fast Uganda trade in tuxedos for weddings and funerals, which are bought used for $1.50 to $3, worn once and then resold...
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES on nonfarm houses have climbed 78% in seven years since 1952. Reason: the price rise of real estate has been slowing, making it harder for a debt-ridden householder to sell out and cover his mortgage arrears. CIGARETTE IMPORT ban lifted by the Japanese as part of their trade liberalization program with the U.S. will bring nearly $3,000,000 in sales to U.S. cigarette makers this year. First order of U.S. cigarettes, $950,000 worth of various brands, sold out in three days despite high prices -36? per pack for regulars, 41? for kings and filters...
...most important economic news last week, among a collection of grey statistics, was the continued rise in new-car sales. In the second ten days of October, sales of cars rose 11% over the first ten days, just about equaling the alltime record set last year. The industry is selling 21,730 cars a day, is racing toward 550,000 domestic sales in October. Counting import-model sales, that would make October the best such month in history. For the first time in seven years, fewer than half the cars being sold in the U.S. are eight-cylinder models, reflecting...
...good sense and practicality of most of is proposals, but a little more long-range creative thinking about the problems and possibilities of Harvard-Radcliffe affiliation might have produced a more valuable guide to action. As the report stands, some of its strongest recommendations lose much of their import because the Colleges have already followed the suggestions wherever possible...