Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land of beef and wheat run itself. The only place it ran was downhill. Prices, wages, national debt and unemployment soared, and Illia's one really concrete action-cancellation of all foreign oil contracts-proved a disaster. Argentina, which has been almost self-sufficient in oil, must now import $100 million worth annually...
...loosed a barrage of abuse against Hussein. The King hit back by branding Shukairy, whose P.L.O. ranks are equipped with Soviet weapons, "a tool of international Communism." Shukairy became personal. He accused the Jordan royal family of corruption, claimed that Hussein's brother Prince Mohammed operated an arms-import racket that provided Israelis with weapons. Shukairy's agents began whispering the word traitor against Hussein in Jordan's refugee camps. To a refugee population obsessed with a return to Palestine, such charges go over dangerously well...
...often that sets and costumes merit the first and highest praise in a Shakespearean production, but the current Twelfth Night on view at stratford is certainly one instance. The dramatist laid the play in Illyris near the Adriatic coast; but the locale is of no particular import, and Will Steven Armstrong decided to make this romantic comedy a little more exotic by pushing it into a Near East such as Elizaebthans might have envisioned...
...toughness, which was welcomed by the U.S. Roaring inflation had threatened to rip the fabric of South Vietnamese society: food prices had risen 85% in 18 months, overall prices as much as 130%. Announcing a basic overhaul of the economy, Ky devalued the piastre by nearly half, loosened import restrictions to create more price-cutting competition, raised the salaries of military and government workers from 20% to 30%. They are the people who have been hardest hit by the inflation, and the people who matter most in the severe fighting of the war and instituting pacification reforms...
...eleven basic indus tries, including cement, iron and steel forging, and timber products. Two weeks ago, the rupee was devalued,* to combat inflation, shelter domestic manufactures against foreign competition, and make exports more salable in world markets. The Finance Ministry an nounced that it was working on an import-liberalization plan...