Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blocking the Whortleberries. Yet tax measures are not always the most far-reaching nontariff barriers to trade. Impoverished Ghana, trying to combat its balance of payments problem as well as protect fledgling native industries, has simply ruled out import licenses for 79 products ranging from suitcases to incense. Industrialized Britain departs from its otherwise liberal trade policy by banning virtually all coal imports. In Japan, which officially restricts imports as disparate as golf balls and electric generators, the government uses friendly persuasion to get importers to cut traffic in other goods that are not formally excluded...
...craftily penalized owners of the German bug. France, challenged at home by Italy's burgeoning appliance industry, has tried everything from a deliberate customs slowdown, which piled up thousands of Italian refrigerators at the border, to a formal request, now pending before the Common Market commission, for outright import quotas. The French also forbid the import of walnuts before Sept. 25-by which time the remnants of Italy's early-ripening crop have often rotted...
...ever made a generator of over 500,000 kw. And two days later Brown, Boveri proved it was no fluke by winning a Tennessee Valley Authority order for two huge 1,300,000-kw. generators. Despite the fact that the $28.5 million Swiss bid included $4 million in import duties, said the TVA, it was more than $10 million under any other. No less enthusiastic, American Electric President Donald C. Cook cheered the arrival of a "third manufacturer" in the U.S. market, and went out of his way to twit the American producers. "They should welcome this," he said, "because...
...would seem," wrote Justice Robert C. Underwood for the court, "that the reasons which caused the Supreme Court to import the constitutional requirements of an adversary criminal trial into delinquency hearings logically require that a finding of delinquency for misconduct, which would be criminal if charged against an adult, is valid only when the acts of delinquency are proved beyond a reasonable doubt." With that, the court ordered a new trial for Robert Urbasek, 13, who had been accused of stabbing to death an eleven-year-old girl two years ago. And this time, he must be proved guilty beyond...
...Chocolate Factory. No city has put more new life in the old waterfront than San Francisco. The move started in 1958, when a little-known import store called Cost Plus rented 4,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space next to Fisherman's Wharf to sell off its large inventory of rattan furniture. Shoppers were so charmed that the "sale" is still going on. Today, Cost Plus stocks 12,500 items (from Portuguese glass to South Pacific whale meat) from 47 countries, draws 25,000 customers weekly-and has spread out into six remodeled buildings, including a former glue factory...