Word: important
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Criticizing the call for import restrictions, Yamani warned that such pressures could "lead to trade wars and spell the end of free trade practices...
...Moscow's Lyolyas -- what few are left after years of KGB crackdowns -- carry news of dissidents, refuseniks, political prisoners, religious activists, divided families and the other sad human detritus of a totalitarian state. The news is usually depressing, time consuming to gather, and often of too little import to warrant reporting. But still it must be covered...
Yamani criticized calls for import restrictions on oil saying they "can lead to trade wars and spell the end of free trade practices...
...steel-dependent Pennsylvania (which lacks a coastline but is considered part of the Mid-Atlantic region). Nor is all gloom in the heartland. Michigan, one of the most depressed states a few years ago, has achieved a remarkable turnaround, thanks to heavy spending by the auto companies to battle import competition and successful efforts to attract electronics and other high-tech industries...
...Iran remains hobbled by a failing economy. This year's collapse in the price of crude, which accounts for 90% of the country's foreign exchange, has cut its projected 1986 oil revenues from $17 billion to less than $7 billion. That could prove devastating to a nation whose import budget this year is $10 billion. In recent months, stores in Tehran have been chronically short of such staples as butter, rice and lamb. Even economic hardship, however, can serve the regime's interests. Authorities promised one man who was desperate to obtain a TV set that he could have...