Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trade expansion with Communist countries got nowhere, as Congress showed an upsurge of protectionist sentiment and even more hostility than usual to foreign aid. The aid bill was reduced $1 billion below the Administration request to $2.29 billion, its lowest level ever; renewal of the Export-Import Bank's charter and funding beyond June 30 was delayed; and there were a number of efforts to protect industries claiming injury by foreign competition...
...critically acclaimed for the sure-footed skill they displayed in handling the rapid-fire crisscross of dialogue. There are no present plans for an American production, but it would be peculiarly ironic if Broadway were to receive the work of the finest living U.S. playwright as still another British import...
...Engineers have much the same problem as Wesleyan--no height. Dave Jansson stands 6'5" and has a 27 point average. He'll be joined in the forecourt by 6'4" Alec Bash and a 6'2" import from the West Coast. In the backcourt are two 5'9" guards, Bruce Wheeler (averaging 14.4) and Steve Chamberlain...
...hundred-seventy-six years separate the Mozart from Piston's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, completed last July. In import, however, the two are not so very far apart. Written in a thoroughly modern idiom, Piston's piece nevertheless has all the brevity, forward drive and essential lyricism of a Mozart horn concerto. Soloist John C. Adams combined a capacity for pyrotechnics with a sensuous pianissimo that must be the envy of all clarinetists...
...does not know whether to be more startled by the arrogance of those who have sought [protection by means of import quotas] or by their intellectual flexibility. Steel and textile men, for example, have preached the virtues of competitive enterprise for many years. Yet we have found them seeking special privilege in Washington this year because of something they call foreign competition. They have gone to the wrong place to attack the wrong enemy: In this situation, their own relative efficiency is decreasing, and they are in fields where outsiders can compete. It is certainly reasonable for a foundation executive...