Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final decision had been left entirely to Attorney General Edward Levi. "I did not know anything about this," Ford told an aroused Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, the Senate's only black. Brooke accepted the President's word, but he marveled that a policy decision of such import could be made without specific presidential knowledge...
...Cabrera invokes Human Rights assuming the voice of a mother wailing for her son who was left to die without medical attention in prison. But Cabrera is no social activist; he is a self-exiled superfluous man, a film critic in a country that could no longer afford to import movies, who vents his pessimism and alienation in a very powerful book. Its clipped and limited range brings it up short of what it could have been. An intellectual document is still needed to remind us that revolutionary Cuba, whatever its great accomplishments in renovating its society...
President Bok's choice last week of Joyce, Boston facilities manager for Honeywell Inc., as director of Buildings and Grounds shows Harvard's desire to import professional management to run the University more efficiently and less expensively...
...trade figures are not going to improve very much, because import prices are going up quicker than export prices. But we've got a real prospect now in the export markets. One fortunate thing is that the American economy is now taking off again...
...Third World, Kissinger has wisely decided to abandon Smith. On his recent African tour, he declared that the U.S. will support a majority government in Rhodesia, and offered sanctions on Smith's regime. Kissinger also pledged to seek the repeal of the Byrd amendment, which allows U.S. companies to import Rhodesian chrome despite a U.N. boycott. In addition, he committed the U.S. to push for a timetable for transition to black rule in South Africa...