Word: important
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart staffers have also been quick to define the new front-runner's Senate record on the oil import tax, the windfall profits tax, and the nuclear build-down; three issues pinpointed by the newly combative Mondale...
...international trade front, declare that the United States will match all its trading partners' import restrictions. We might be surprised how quickly their barriers go down if there's a threat that ours will...
...Import quotas, plus voluntary export restraints by European and Japanese producers, which the industry has been demanding, have already reduced foreign competition...
Though China has nuclear weapons, it has lagged badly in developing atomic energy. The country has no operational reactors, mainly because it refused for many years to import foreign technology. Now the Chinese are looking outward. They have started a joint venture with the government of Hong Kong to build two French-designed reactors by 1991 in Guangdong province. China has also signed a preliminary agreement with France to buy two more reactors. Executives from Westinghouse and General Electric have paid several visits to China in recent months, but deals must await the signing of a U.S.-China nuclear cooperation...
...that each of Detroit's Big Three now relies on a Japanese company to provide some of its small cars. Starting next year, GM plans to build some 250,000 small cars a year with Toyota in a plant in Fremont, Calif. By 1986 the company hopes to import 300,000 cars built by Suzuki and Isuzu. Predicts GM Chairman Roger Smith: "Joint ventures are going to be a way of life." Chrysler, which last week filed an antitrust suit seeking to prevent the Toyota-GM hookup, imports four Mitsubishi models and will probably replace its aging Omni...