Word: important
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feeble effort at capturing on screen the ambitions and frustrations of those crary, but immensely talented, kids just have to dance. The only prestige that Director Sidney Poitier lends the film is his name in the credits. It becomes obvious, however, that it is not enough merely to import a big name to ensure cinematic success...
...budget would also dissolve the Export-Import Bank, which helps finance foreign trade by U.S. corporations. The Administration wants the private financial community, not the taxpayer, to help companies like General Electric, Bechtel Group and Westinghouse finance their sales abroad. The ^ financial community contends that the end of ExportImport would hamper international traders who are struggling against a strong dollar, subsidized foreign competition, and a growing U.S. trade deficit...
Most striking, Reagan plans to eliminate entirely a clutch of programs, including loans by the Small Business Administration and the Export-Import Bank, subsidies to Amtrak and urban mass transportation, and general revenue- sharing grants to cities and counties. The fact that nearly all of these slashes have been well publicized in advance does not make them any less bold an attempt to carry out Reagan's philosophical objective of reducing the role of the Federal Government in American life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep...
...American offensive, Hyundai last year introduced its Pony subcompact into Canada, anticipating sales of no more than 5,000 cars in the first year. Thanks largely to its attractive base price of just $4,600 (in U.S. dollars), Pony sales topped 25,000, or 11% of the Canadian import market...
...Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry can be tough. Ask any American businessman. In fact, ask any Japanese businessman. Taiji Satoh, 31, last year saw that gasoline in Singapore cost far less than it did in Japan, so he signed a contract to import 18,860 bbl. for his Lions Petroleum Co., which is based near Tokyo. But MITI had other ideas. The ministry had previously ruled that only crude oil, not gasoline, may enter Japan. Refining is done domestically. When word of Satoh's purchase got out, MITI Minister Keijiro Murata sent him an "advice" that bluntly warned...