Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the top U.S. diplomat in Bonn requests an appointment with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, it is presumably to discuss a subject of considerable import to both of their governments. Thus it raised eyebrows recently-and provoked some snickers-when American Chargé d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive. There was nothing Kiesinger could do about it; by diplomatic protocol, an ambassador has automatic precedence over any lesser rank...
...jets fly over the earth. "We're getting so close," said Stafford, "all you have to do is put your tail wheel down and we're there." As the spacecraft headed back toward earth at week's end, Flight Director Milton Windier summed up the immediate import of the flight, which was designed to test out Snoopy's performance before an actual moon landing: "It's all downhill from here. I see nothing to constrain the launch of Apollo...
...Japan does not voluntarily hold down its shipments soon, the U.S. will move toward mandatory import controls. Protectionist sentiment is rising in Congress. Earlier this month, Wilbur Mills introduced a bill calling for textile import quotas, and it will get massive support. If the bill passes, it could set off a round of moves and countermoves restricting free trade...
Overabundance is common in the developed nations that can afford to subsidize farming. It is a costly bounty that threatens to stimulate further protectionism and provoke trade-damaging price wars behind the barricades of new border taxes, import quotas and additional grain subsidies. The cruel irony is that while almost half of the world's people are malnourished, there is sufficient food to feed them today...
...other films (The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah), Director James Ivory proves a precise and witty landscape artist. The Victorians may have traded in silks and spices, but, as Ivory shows, today's Elizabethans are in the culture export-import business. The proof is provided in contradictory fragments: a sitar sits near a hi-fi rig; a girl is dubbed a beauty queen with a rhinestone coronet that matches the jewel in her nose; groupies sleep on a temple's tessellated floors...