Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been arranged from nations in both the East and West blocs, and Suharto hopes to achieve a balanced national budget of $813 million this year. Most significantly, the Indonesian Congress last month passed a liberal investment law. It provides for a five-year tax holiday on new developments, relaxes import duties on new equipment, allows repatriation of profits, and offers fair compensation at such a time as the Indonesians are able to take over any industry and run it themselves. "We really need foreign capital for our nation's development," said Suharto in explaining...
...buttons unbutton. The look of a custom-made Savile Row suit is unmistakable. So is its durability, mainly because of thousands of hand-stitched seams in the canvas foundations. For all its vaunted prestige, the suit's greatest virtue may actually be its price: even with a 21% import duty, a suit delivered in the U.S. generally costs $200 to $250 v. $250 to $300 for U.S. custom-mades...
...past three years, a surprisingly amiable intellectual dialogue between Christians and Marxist atheists has been under way in Europe. Although there are few domestic Communists around who are worth debating, U.S. theologians are showing interest in joining the discussion - even if they have to import a Communist. Thus Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, the Harvard Divinity School and Jesuit-run St. Louis University were among the dozen institutions that played host to Roger Garaudy, the chief theoretician of the French Communist Party, while he was on a brief U.S. lecture tour this month. Last week officials of the Soviet...
...unpredictable, uncontrollable nature of this new style of war has more than just military import. "One step toward controlling war in society," Meselson suggests optimistically, "is to move towards weapons we can control...
Naturally the result is flawless. Director Arthur Friedman gives us a Pooh that is moving, tender, light, and at times bursting with social import. Friedman establishes in the course of his entertainment an extraordinary communion with A.A.'s thought patterns; it is as if the man himself were reading his stories aloud...