Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...food and service has even attracted Gentile guests, who are offered yarmulkes (skullcaps) to wear in the dining rooms. Finding money to build the Deborah was no problem; the millionaire Knoll brothers own a number of corporations in Venezuela, including a construction firm, a dental supply business, an export-import company and an office-furniture factory...
...starter, the new government has canceled Brazil's $200 million-a-year wheat and petroleum import subsidies, cut the national budget 30%, and is promoting a bill that will create a National Monetary Council for stabilizing finance and trade policy. It also intends to cut back commercial credit for businessmen, hold down those famous 100% wage boosts Goulart liked to pass out to unions, expand exports by offering credit insurance...
...huge, state-owned industrial holding company, I.R.I. (TIME, March 27). Visentini's main task is to strengthen the position of Olivetti's U.S. subsidiary, Underwood Corp., which has not kept up with its U.S. competitors. In addition, Olivetti (1963 sales: $360 million) is troubled by import restrictions in its sizable Latin American market. Visentini, a lawyer well-connected with Italy's center-left government, will also try to fight off recurrent threats of nationalization...
...autostop. At border crossings, West German police have been known to halt a car and order the driver to take aboard a wholesome-looking stoppeur. Neatness counts, since it denotes respectability; so does a pair of knobby knees (male), because Germans like outdoorsiness. The thumb is a U.S. import; native custom dictates an erect forearm and a vigorous loose-wristed wag of the hand. One student last summer became king of the Autobahnen by carrying a sign that said: I KNOW A THOUSAND JOKES...
Whatever thy import drain...