Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acres of the nation's rich farm land below the dam is now insufficient Much of that land has become increasingly saline, reducing agricultural productivity by as much as 50%. For all that, the dam has some staunch defenders. They claim that Egypt eventually will not have to import any fertilizer; plants powered by electricity generated at Aswan* will turn out enough to make the country self-sufficient. The loss of the sardine industry, they say, is more than counterbalanced by the new fishing industry on Lake Nasser, which covers 2,000 square miles behind the dam. Fishermen...
...firearms is rapidly mounting evidence that the most recent federal gun-control law, passed in 1968, has been an abysmal failure. The proposal was fought so successfully by the National Rifle Association that the eventual law did little more than strengthen bookkeeping requirements for dealers and ban the importing of cheap pistols. Even that ban was undercut by permitting Americans to import the parts for easily assembled "Saturday-night specials," short-barreled, cheaply made weapons that sell for $25 or so and usually fire small-caliber bullets...
...followers of Public Television's most popular import know, the relationship between Richard Bellamy and his servants in the Edwardian saga Upstairs, Downstairs is complex, profound -and totally unilateral...
...fish on return. Prices fluctuate with competition: the more boats that come in on one day, the less fish is worth per pound. Prices are also affected by how much fish is trucked in from Canada on a given day. Fish that comes in by road is free of import duty; fish that comes in by boat is subject to excise taxes that pay the costs of running the fish pier--unloading the boats and wheeling the fish to the companies with the highest bids...
...confusion and varying interpretations of the Government's complex pricing regulations. But FEA and other federal agencies are also pressing a rapidly widening hunt for possible criminal violations of the oil price controls passed by Congress in November 1973. U.S. Customs Service agents, for example, are poring over import records in 35 U.S. ports, checking for inaccurate or incomplete entries on tanker manifests and invoices by more than 40 companies...