Word: importance
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Recapturing Volkswagen's former lead in the U.S. import market may be a more difficult proposition. The Rabbit faces plenty of subcompact competition-not only from other imports but also from new small cars to be brought out soon by Chrysler and American Motors. Some, ironically, will be powered by VW engines. One selling point for the Rabbits that will be made in Volkswagen's Pennsylvania plant: about 20% will be equipped with lightweight, fuel-stingy diesel engines, the first large-scale introduction of diesels to the American market...
...members of OPEC receive only 35 per cent of the retail price of oil, Jaideh said, adding the difference is made up primarily of import taxes...
...meet legal fees and support their families. If not satisfied, Hunt threatened, he would tell all of "the seamy things" he had done for the White House. As he always has, despite the contrary evidence, Nixon now tells Frost that "March 21 was the date in which the full import, the full impact of the cover-up came...
...does not include military aid, estimated at $200,000 a day. Moscow also supplies almost all of Cuba's oil needs at bargain prices. But Cuba owes nearly $5 billion to the Soviets, plus $1 billion in hard currency to other countries. Agriculture has floundered, forcing Cuba to import beans, grain and meat from Europe and South America and rice from as far away as China. There is virtually no fish available: Cuba's entire catch goes for export cash...
Except for an understandable overflow of sentiment, the final episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, PBS's blue-chip 'British import, was of a piece with its predecessors. There was the titillating peek into the ways of conspicuous consumption: among other extravagances, the recipe for Georgina's four-tiered wedding cake calls for 16 pounds of currants. There was the history bulletin: Hudson snaps shut his newspaper (the time is 1930) and announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity...