Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Munford, Inc., which has its headquarters in Atlanta, expects to ring up sales as high as $350 million this year, v. $273 million last year. The company operates two chains of stores: the 1,400 MAJIK "convenience" stores (open late into the night) and 90 World Bazaar stores selling imported goods. Even so Munford ranks behind two other Southern-based firms in both major areas of its business. The biggest convenience-store chain is Southland (the 7-Eleven stores) based in Dallas; the biggest import chain is Pier 1 with head offices in Fort Worth...
...patrolman rolled down his window, shook the man's hand, and began to converse heatedly with him, long after the light ahead of him had changed. Middle-Eastern music blared from "A Nubian Notion," an import variety store across the street. Other drivers behind him began honking their horns, and so the officer moved...
Many of the cigarettes are imported from India, some under the name of Mint Bidis. These contain thorn apple, a common term for the botanist's Datura stramonium, also known as Jimson weed. It can be highly poisonous in large doses and yields strong hallucinatory drugs. One patient, who arrived at the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute in a confused state, out of touch with reality, had smoked six to eight Mint Bidis a day for a week; he needed three days to recover. Another, who had smoked about ten in three hours, had the same reaction but recovered within...
...tourist hotel or a bar in Salisbury, the speaker might be male or female; the accent anything from upper class British to cockney to Greek. Various illustrations were used, though the Kaffir who, with a modern kitchen, nevertheless made a cooking fire on the floor recurred frequently. But the import was always the same, and the speaker white...
Touchy Issue. Eraser's talks with Ford, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and other officials centered mainly on common defense interests and trade, with the P.M. pressing the U.S. to import more beef from Down Under. Australia last year bought $2 billion worth of goods from the U.S., which in return spent only $1 billion in Australia. The very size of the overseas economic presence in Australia, where U.S. firms account for 40% of the $14.6 billion total in foreign investments, is also becoming an irritant; with Australian nationalism running strong, Fraser has set guidelines whereby U.S. and other...