Word: importancies
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...trying to get me. And you're the gofer." The angry speaker is a man named Michael Gallagher. It is his misfortune to be the son and nephew of mobsters and to look as if he might be following in the family tradition under cover of managing an import business on the Miami waterfront. It is an impression that his dress, manner and accent do nothing to correct. The gofer under verbal assault is Megan Carter, and it is her misfortune to be the sort of newspaperperson who believes in first impressions-and second and third ones, when...
...Reject!", knowing the opposite to be almost exclusively the case. Down in New Have, one could assume, they had nothing better to do than buy blue and white scarves (the Official Yale Scarf, incidentally, is manufactured in Harvard Square), carve their initials into the tables down at Mory's, import girls for football weekends. Harvard was more worldly than that, initiating academic, political and social trends which Yale could only sniff at or copy (or both...
...prove devastating in a world where ideas and careful thinking count more than images and the impression they create. His charges are hardly new, for they mirror perfectly the opinions of more than a few Democratic Congressmen and liberal economists. Republicans had heard such complaints all summer, and the import of such attacks could only pale in contrast to the drubbing the Reagan program received in the nation's financial markets...
...result, automakers are off to a disastrous new model year. During the first 20 days of October, sales of U.S.-made new cars plunged to 295,688 units, the lowest level in 23 years and a hefty 31% below last year's depressed rate. Import sales, which amount to 27% of the market, have been generally flat for the year...
...sterling on the world's money markets. For months, Laker has been seeking extra time to repay loans he took out to buy DC 10s and European-made Airbus A300s for his fleet. Included in the debts are $160 million in direct and guaranteed loans from the Export-Import Bank, and $131 million borrowed last January from a syndicate of 14 European and North American banks. His reason for seeking the extension: to avoid having to pay an extra sum of at least ?6 million to his lenders as a result of the slide of sterling against the dollar...