Word: importance
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Short of coming up with cows that breed as fast as battery hens, there is little that the Government can do to ease the fluctuations of the ten-year beef production cycle. One stopgap measure that President Carter is now considering would be to relax import restrictions on foreign beef in order to increase supplies at meat counters. Since there is presently no world surplus of beef anyhow, lifting restrictions would probably bring in no more than 250 million Ibs. of beef on top of the 1.3 billion Ibs. that the nation already imports from Australia, New Zealand, Canada...
...designed to raise U.S. prices of sugar to 13.5¢ per Ib. But that has not been enough for the growers, who contend that they cannot make a profit at that price. So last week the House wound up subcommittee public hearings on a bill that would use import quotas and fees to set a floor price for sugar of 17¢ per Ib. The same bill has been put forward in the Senate by Idaho Democrat Frank Church, and it has 34 cosponsors...
...House majority whip. Despite the fact that large garden parties are bad for the estate's famous tree-lined garden. Bok apparently felt that Brademas--a former Overseer and close friend of "Harvard's Congressman," Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.--could be trusted not to import a pack of restless dachsunds. "We figured, what the heck, it wasn't costing Harvard any money," Bok said...
Carter tried to be philosophical about the polls-"They go up and down, as you know"-and practical about their import. On the advice of his White House political aides, he made a campaign-style trip to Illinois and West Virginia, where he attacked what he called, in one prepared statement, the "iron triangle of bureaucracy, congressional committees and well-organized special interests that can mobilize strong opposition to the reforms we need...
...associate it with glamour and bathing beauties. Tony Alonzo, a Cuban refugee who opened a small store in Miami in 1965, has built a million-dollar business by supplying Latin visitors with products that either cost them much more at home or are not available at all because of import restrictions. "Some tourists spend their vacation in my store," he says. "They buy their whole year's needs of brands they know-Arrow shirts, Levi Strauss and Wrangler jeans, Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior." When leaving Miami, Latin American tourists often require a second and sometimes a third...