Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the President. Though tin has been nationalized, the tin companies have not been compensated. Until U.S. shareholders are satisfactorily reimbursed, the U.S. is unwilling to sign a long-term contract for tin. The Bolivian economy, lopsidedly dependent on tin income, is near collapse. Unable to get permits to import raw materials, the textile industry has sharply curtailed production. Foodstuffs, normally imported, including wheat, meat, rice and sugar, are in critically short supply. Teachers are pressing for cost-of-living pay increases. The government has had to print more currency; since the revolution, the boliviano has dropped from...
...first time that the Soviet people had heard from their rulers' lips that torture has been used as a method of police interrogation. Whatever dire necessity, of intrigue or revenge, had moved the Malenkov government to risk such admissions must plainly be of vast and vital import...
...parody is Alice Ghostly's "Boston Beguine." In a baggy sweater and skirt, Miss Ghostly clatters about the stage in a primitive tango, screeching of her romance with a Harvard man in Boston's "native quarter." The fourth in a talented quarter is Robert Clary, a 14-ounce French import, who mugs through another bouncy tune, "I'm in Love With Miss Logan." Apparently ageless, Clary easily changes his school boy costume for white tie and tails to serenade oversized showgirls...
...eyes of the world are on the Harvard Law School at this moment. You, as its Dean, are faced with a problem of grave and far reaching import, but one which nevertheless requires immediate courageous and decisive action...
...Israel's inflated economy, last year's devaluation intensified it. Devaluation cut the value of the currency enough so that domestic prices rose sharply, but not enough to give Israeli products a competitive chance in foreign markets. Result: instead of the hoped-for export boom, the import-export gap widened in 1952 from a dangerous 7 to 1 to a disastrous...