Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smokestack emissions. But to burn Ohio's high-sulfur coal, say the companies, would necessitate installing expensive scrubbing devices. They rebelled at the cost; one utility reckoned that compliance with the EPA order could cause a 24% rise in electric rates. Instead, the companies said, they would import low-sulfur coal from Western or Appalachian states. That in turn riled the miners, who argue that if the utilities buy out-of-state coal, demand for Ohio coal will fall by as much as 30% and 12,500 people will be out of work...
...deal: inflation may turn out to be no worse than expected this year. That about sums up the import of the news last week of a slowdown in wholesale-price increases in July. The month's annual rate of 6.2% was about a third less than the rises in May and June, and the smallest jump in four months...
...that afflicted their cities. After investigating two earlier killings-the murder of former Iraqi Premier Abdel Razak Nayef last month and the shooting of P.L.O. Representative Said Hammami in January-British authorities decided that Iraqi agents were deeply involved, and that Baghdad was using its embassy and airline to import weapons and killers. The Foreign Office as a result ordered home seven Iraqi diplomats and four other nationals. In retaliation, eight British diplomats and two other nationals were banished from Baghdad...
Since Borman outraged U.S. planemakers by buying a European plane, Boeing has led a campaign in Washington against what Treasurer Jack Pierce calls "predatory financing." Indeed, Borman got a good deal, which includes a $250 million loan guaranteed by European government agencies. Somewhat reluctantly, the U.S. Export-Import Bank has agreed to try to meet the European terms by making more of low-interest loans available to foreign buyers of U.S. aircraft...
...these woes is inflation, while the collapsing dollar is pushing up prices even more. Not only do companies have to pay higher prices for foreign-made heavy machinery, engineering equipment and other high technology goods that have now replaced oil as the largest single category in the nation's import bill, but individual consumers are also being hurt. In the past year, the price of Volkswagen Rabbits has climbed 12.6%, and Japanese Toyotas are up 13% this year. Rising prices for imports likewise give domestic manufacturers an excuse to raise their own prices. This in turn sends more money pouring...