Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peculiar marketing arrangements, the reaction in the marketplace to the prospects of a shortage was more violent than the facts warranted. Most of the big sugar-using nations grow enough beet or cane sugar to supply a great part of their own needs, and they contract in advance to import the extra sugar they need. The result is that only about 10% of the world's requirements are sought for on the open market. The bidding by so many for this small amount started the price rise; and when the U.S. last month declared that it was going...
...colleagues who have been involved with us in this research. As our work continues and comes increasingly to the public's attention, we shall all be in a better position to determine how wisely all of us have acted in the specifics of this controversy. Of much greater import is the stand taken by a leading university toward this new exploring of man's consciousness...
...equipment for which Tito would like spare parts since 50% of Yugoslavia's commerce is with the West, it is worried about the rising tariff walls of the six-nation Common Market. Naturally, Tito raised the problem of "most favored nation" status which, if eliminated, could sharply boost import levies on Yugoslavia's $30 million annual trade with the U.S. Rusk could offer no assurances that the clause would be restored, since the decision is up to Congress. On the whole, it was a pleasant if inconclusive chat. Then, less than 24 hours after he arrived, the Secretary...
...achieve this remarkable breadth of treatment without some sacrifice. Not all of his notions are operationally verifiable, nor does he always escape self-contradiction. Yet his transgressions of the scientific ethic must not be taken too seriously. He persistently applied himself to real problems, to ones of great human import. And though James, with characteristic hospitality, would welcome the use of computer models and animal studies, he would have protested vehemently against sacrificing the fullness of life for a manageable but sterile fragment...
...local auto plants are inefficient and expensive: a homemade Chrysler Corp. Valiant sells for $3,500 in Venezuela, a Ford Falcon for $5,530 in Argentina. Nationalistic politicians argue that these prices are not too high to pay for developing a national industry that will create jobs, reduce imports and preserve precious foreign exchange. In Brazil alone, 1,300 companies have sprung up to supply the automakers, and only $24 worth of parts on each car is now imported. But Argentina still spends $200 million a year to import auto parts-just about what it would spend if it imported...