Word: importance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great events produce newspapers and magazines that people instinctively preserve for their historic import. But most Americans today who have set aside issues of the recent momentous weeks to relive the tumult with their children and grandchildren will, 50 years hence, confront what today's grandparent usually finds on a trip to the attic - crumbling, yellowed newspapers inexorably turning to dust. A few years ago an assistant professor of librarianship at the University of Washington named Richard Smith devised a simple formula for ensuring the survival of history-making newsprint. His innovation is ripe for use now. The recipe...
...Richard Nixon who impeded the FBI's investigation of the Watergate affair," the minority report declared. "It was Richard Nixon who created and preserved the evidence of that transgression and ... concealed its terrible import, even from his own counsel, until he could do so no longer." The ten Republicans collectively noted "the self-inflicted nature" of Nixon's Watergate troubles and wondered how "such an able, experienced and perceptive man" could have "imprisoned the truth about his role in the Watergate cover-up so long and so tightly within the solitude of his Oval Office that it could...
...always seemed impossibly visionary. Still, planning for the project has gone ahead, only now in an atmosphere of far greater realism. Last week Federal Energy Administrator John Sawhill opened four days of Project Independence hearings in Manhattan by acknowledging candidly that the U.S. will always need to import some...
...minimum program consisting of little more than a stand-by allocation and stockpiling plan and efforts to import more oil from the countries least likely to join in an Arab-type embargo...
...tens of thousands of upwardly mobile associate faculty members and grad students have been able to cultivate tastes to match their salaries (or ambition) at a number of import and gourmet shops. They also do very well, but their market is very fluid, and, as a result, they have a tendency to come...