Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This might have passed for just another ramshackle kung-fu import if it were not for the ad campaign, which promised "the first X-rated fight scenes in screen history." The M.P.A.A. is usually stern about sexual content, but almost carefree about violence. What about The Street Fighter could have raised the organization...
...surprising that these overtures come at a time when rising sugar prices have created a need for a new import market. But it is good that the government realizes that the Cuban revolution cannot be undone, and important that an American ambassador be sent to Cuba in the near future...
...main goal: to stimulate energy conservation over the long term but avoid any action on the price or availability of oil that might damage prospects for a turnaround in the U.S. economy. The Wright-Pastore conservation target is exactly half as ambitious as Ford's-an oil-import reduction of 500,000 bbl. per day in the first year...
With all the changes that have come and gone since the Soc Rel class study, the House reputations, though perhaps of minimal import now, persist. Adams is still called artsyfartsy and intellectual (though many will preface the latter with "pseudo"); Lowell is still intellectual (though with its fair share of preppies); Winthrop is still seen as easy-going; Eliot is still snobbish, white shoe and conservative...
...patterns of the past decade continue, most of the increased sales of arms will be to the underdeveloped nations of the Third World. According to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, developed and underdeveloped countries in 1964 each imported about $1.5 billion in arms; by 1973 the industrialized states were actually buying a bit less, while the Third World countries' import bill had soared to $7.7 billion. One reason: as East-West tension has ebbed in Central Europe, the areas of real and potential conflict have shifted to the Third World. Enormous quantities of arms were required...