Word: importance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japanese have long been denounced as environmental villains, who import too many products made from endangered species and carry on destructive logging and fishing operations throughout the Pacific region. In two specific areas this month, Tokyo responded to the pressure from other nations...
Just the week before, Japan declared a total ban on ivory imports. The country's ivory carvers have traditionally been the most avid consumers of tusks taken from African elephants. But in recent years, concerned that the rapid depletion of elephant herds could mean the end of their ancient trade, the carvers have agreed to ever tightening import restrictions. Now Tokyo has decided to halt all shipments indefinitely and let the carvers work from ivory stockpiles...
American cigarette makers want Carla Hills, the U.S. Trade Representative, to break down Thailand's import barriers so that they can charge into that country's market. Specifically, the industry filed a petition under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 accusing Thailand of unfair trade practices. Hills is investigating the claim. But the American tobacco lobby is bitterly opposed by U.S. public-health advocates and the Thai government, which has the somewhat contradictory motives of protecting its citizens' health and defending the interests of its entrenched cigarette monopoly...
...Engineers, a division III team, are coming off a 6-9 season and have only one big gun returning. Sophomore Stephan Feldgoise (6 goals, 2 assists for 14 points) will provide the firepower up front, while Icelandic import Hans Smarason (3-1--5) is MIT's top midfielder...
...German navy was unable to achieve an invasion of England, though, it seriously threatened to starve the embattled island by cutting its lifelines to the west. Britain needed to import by sea nearly a million tons of supplies every week -- food and fuel as well as weapons. For this it required the services of some 3,000 merchant ships, and in this summer of 1940, Admiral Karl Donitz's submarine fleet not only acquired access to the Atlantic at the captured French naval base in Lorient but also started a lethal new tactic known as wolf packs. Instead...