Word: importance
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...poured some 50 housewives, typists and shop girls flaunting hundreds of birth control devices. Members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, they were challenging the anti-birth control policies of the Catholic-dominated Dublin government and, in particular, the Criminal Justice Act of 1935, forbidding the import or sale of contraceptives...
...read with interest the May 24 CRIMSON story on the GSD Faculty's action with regard to my appeal of their decision not to renew my teaching contract. Let me just add one important point that was omitted. The concept of "adequate consideration" is far from "meaningless," as Dean Kilbridge claims. It is a phrase used by the AAUP and is defined in terms of answers to the following questions: "Was the decision conscientiously arrived at? Was all available evidence bearing on the relevant performance of the candidate sought out and considered? Was there adequate deliberation by the department over...
AGRICULTURAL TARIFFS. Britain wants several years to adjust from the import of lower-priced U.S. and Commonwealth foodstuffs to the Common Market's high-priced produce, which is protected by tariffs. The switch will mean a rise of as much as 28% in British food costs. The Six agreed to a timetable that allows Britain five crop years after entry to make the change. As a result, price markups on foodstuffs in Britain will come gradually, and the full impact on the British cost of living will not be felt until the late 1970s. The Benelux representatives, whose farmers...
...guilder had risen 2.2%, to 28.2?. Two other currencies were formally revalued: the Swiss franc went up 7%, to 24.46?, and the Austrian schilling 5%, to 4.04?. Belgium adopted a perplexing two-price system for its franc, maintaining the old value of 2.01? on export-import dealings and letting the rate float on investment and loan transactions; at week's end the free rate had risen to 2.04?. Since all five currencies are now worth more in U.S. money, the moves added up to a partial, back-door devaluation of the dollar...
KENDALL: Through its import quotas and other barriers, Japan now maintains import restrictions on 80 items that are in violation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Under the GATT arrangement, we can project what these violations cost our industries in total dollars and then stop an equivalent amount of Japanese goods at our own borders...