Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ended up in Louisiana Democrat Russell Long's Senate Finance Committee as riders on a bill raising social security benefits 12.5%. The reasoning was that President Johnson would be loath to veto the social security provisions. Jubilantly, Oscar R. Strackbein, who as chairman of the Nationwide Committee for Import-Export Policy is the chief lobbyist for high tariffs and has been around Washington longer than many a legislator, predicted that this time trade restrictions would be adopted...
...deposits had helped to make Beirut the banking capital of the Middle East, moved their riches elsewhere. Tourist trade, the other principal prop of Lebanon's economy, all but vanished with the Middle East war. Now, in once bustling Beirut, sumptuous hotels are almost empty, restaurants deserted, harbor-import traffic slow, nightclubs closed, stores shuttered for lack of customers...
...More important, the Cubans have been displeased with much of the heavy machinery they import from the Soviet Union. Trucks and automated cane cutters break down often in the tropical climate. This past summer, the American-built waterworks system in Havana showed signs of dangerous dilapidation for the first time. The cost of replacing it, and the risk of replacing it with unreliable Russian equipment, is only one of a series of similar problems the Cuban people will have to face in the future...
...took its case to the Immigration Department of California, claiming it was illegal to import workers in this fashion. The department responded by deporting 15 of these immigrant workers a day. Thirty more scabs arrived by bus every morning. As one Immigration official reportedly explained, "We have a community responsibility." The strike had been broken...
...Agriculture Minister, Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona, 59, has appealed to his countrymen to ease "the problem of domestic underconsumption." Noting that the Spaniards consume only half as much wine per capita as the Frenchmen, the government is starting a huge advertising campaign for wine-and doubling the import duties on Scotch...