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...biggest problem is the vicious circle. We have a population without skills. While we retrain, we must import skills from the advanced countries. For that you need dollars. But to have dollars you have to produce exports. To produce exports you need people with skills...
...Their interests are linked to the export of wealth. They import perfumes or nail polish and want us to use our hard-earned dollars from coffee ((exports)) on these frivolities. We say no; our dollars will go for machines...
...Reopen access to Export-Import Bank credits on terms available to other countries...
...last night's City Council meeting, Councillor David E. Sullivan introduced an order saying that the ad "strongly suggests that supporters of Proposition 1-2-3 are again planning to import out of town mercenaries to deceive Cambridge voters at the polls...
...took over construction of the trans-Canadian railway, a project that consumed several fortunes, 4 1/2 years of agonizing labor and an untold number of lives. "Since we can't export the scenery," he once said, expressing a frontiersman's thirsty love of the land, "we'll have to import the tourists...