Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hard a Sell. The Japanese reaction was surprisingly positive. For months the Japanese, who are running a big trade balance in their favor, have been pressed by their Western trading partners to hold down their exports and import more foreign goods. Reported Yomiuri Shimbun, a Tokyo daily: "A realization has been deepening in the industry that Japan had gone too far in pushing sales...
...from the CIA--these were the people who refused to slow production, who walked to work. These were not the people who decried shortages of consumer goods, set up a black market, and hoarded provisions whenan American trade embargo created a false shortage of foreign exchange with which to import luxury goods. The people who speak in Avenue are those who would have built Allende's "better society...
Mondale will deliver a tough message to South African Prime Minister Vorster: either change the basic apartheid policy or the U.S. will take concrete action against the regime. Among the possible actions: tightening visa requirements, cutting back credits to South Africa from the Export-Import Bank, severing links between U.S. and South African intelligence agencies...
Laetrile has also been winning victories in the courts. A Kansas man who had rectal cancer testified that the compound, which releases cyanide in the body, is keeping him alive. A federal judge not only let him import the drug - available in Mexico, West Germany and other countries - but forced the reluctant FDA to hold its first public hearings on Laetrile. The two-day session in Kansas City, Mo., attracted 300 supporters, who continually booed and jeered the drug's critics...
...book grows from a television series Galbraith filmed for the BBC along the lines of J. Bronowski's Ascent of Man. In the series, Galbraith jaunts around the world to various spots of particular import in his study, strolling along the countryside of Marx's youth and surveying the barren wastes of Death Valley (which he offers as an example of the New York-Philadelphia corridor after World War III). As a substitute--a good one--for the varied film clips that bring his series to life, The Age of Uncertainty is studded with more than a hundred photographs...