Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Danish Import. Yet Papandreou was still an orator without peer in the land of Demosthenes. And in choosing to attack the monarchy he had a vital issue, for the Greeks have often resented, and sometimes even exiled, a royal family that was originally (in 1863) imported from Denmark...
...bitter memories of Hiroshima, is emotionally even more reluctant than India to make the bomb. Militarily and politically, however, it has the same incentive: fear of Red China, which has already threatened the Japanese with a nuclear "holocaust" in the event of an atomic war. Since Japan has to import reactor fuels under strict controls, it is not at present likely to become a nuclear power. However, if Peking grows ever more menacing and New Delhi opts for the bomb, Japan might try to obtain its uranium from India...
...President signs many proclamations, Lyndon Johnson last week told his White House guests. Some of them are "of great significance." Others, he continued in a monument to restraint, are of "somewhat lesser significance and import." The President just wanted to make clear that he thought that the proclamation he was about to sign-designating next Sept. 13 as World Law Day-Was in the great-significance category. The proclamation, said he, "expresses something of the greatest importance about the purposes of the American people and the purposes of the American nation. And that is our commitment to, and our quest...
...well exceeds last year's, rice prices have risen by a third since January. Much of the profit is pocketed by Saigon's Chinese merchants, who callously corner the markets in scarce commodities. So rather than exporting rice this year, South Viet Nam has been forced to import fully 50,000 tons from...
...clearly feels that Britain's austerity measures have not yet had a chance to work. He stressed the pound's strong reserve backing: $2.8 billion in gold and currency buttressed by a $1 billion standby credit with the Federal Reserve System and the Export-Import Bank, plus a $1.2 billion Government-owned portfolio of U.S. securities that Britain is gradually converting into bonds and time deposits. Callaghan sought no official commitment of new support from the U.S., but a communique issued by him and Secretary Fowler spoke of the "identity of interests" between the world...