Word: important
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...essentially valid; the logic of protectionism remains beguiling and essentially self-destructive. Consider one example of how protections can subvert the economy. The American machine-tool industry recently joined the lineup of those seeking protection from foreign competition. The industry has been seriously hurt by the recession and by imports of cheaper or better machine tools from Japan and other countries. Since machine tools are essential to a growing U.S. economy and to its defense, the toolmakers argue, import restrictions must be imposed so that the domestic industry can survive and supply other U.S. manufacturers with the equipment to modernize...
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone [Dec. 6] is staunchly pro-American. Nevertheless, the U.S. will be disappointed if it expects Nakasone to respond quickly and fully to U.S. requests for increased Japanese military power and eased Japanese import restrictions. Rigid budget limitations make it difficult to step up defense spending, and stubborn farmers will resist more beef and citrus imports...
...suffering from drought, adding further to the human misery. In Oaxaca, Peasant Farmer Manuel Ramirez Santiago, 30, explains that he has given up entirely on working the land. Instead, he has become a street-side Popsicle vendor. Agricultural experts estimate that on a nationwide scale, Mexico will have to import 10.5 million tons of basic grains by the end of 1983 to compensate for the natural disaster...
...good writer can construct a play out of cardboard and paste, and, in the right hands, even the flimsiest plot can be turned into an amusing and diverting evening in the theater. But such hands have not come anywhere near this English import, which opened on Broadway last week. Rarely has so very little been made of so very little...
...Japanese bikes for five years. That, contends HD, would narrow the price gap between Harleys and Japanese bikes to what it was in 1977 before the Japanese began holding down prices. A favorable ITC ruling would not give Harley an open road. President Reagan, a foe of import controls, must decide what relief, if any, Harley gets...