Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, Israel's biggest import is people. Partly because last year's military victory made the country more secure and stirred feelings of pride, immigration will double this year to 30,000. One-third will come from Western countries, bringing welcome skills that will help to propel the economy...
...seizure "a clear violation of international law" and asked the State Department to refrain from stepping in actively. One reason for the company's restraint was that Peru accounts for less than 1% of its total crude-oil production. The company also figures that Peru, which has to import oil to meet its needs, can ill afford to tamper with domestic oil sources. For the moment, Peru's militarists were in no mood to yield. But there is at least a chance that the junta, having scored a few political points, may eventually offer IPC a contract...
...TRADE. Humphrey advocates reducing such nontariff barriers as quotas and import taxes, while protecting domestic industries against "unfair dumping" by foreign producers. Both men are fundamentally free traders, but Nixon goes along with "temporary" protection for such hard-pressed industries as steel and textile. He blames domestic inflation for the nation's shrinking trade surplus...
...burglar movie has 999 lives. And for good reason: the suspense of the well-planned caper, the guaranteed palm-sweating factor in window-ledge gymnastics, the romantic appeal of the Lone Wolf against Society. He Who Rides a Tiger is a low-budget British import that delivers all these with a handsome bonus as well-some real characters worth caring about...
...that Japan might like to lend another $140 million to build a pipeline from Siberia's Ohka oilfields to the sea and perhaps take part in a $1.2 billion program to develop copper mines near Lake Baikal. Japan, which has few raw materials itself and is forced to import oil from the Middle East and copper from Africa, is understandably interested in these and other ventures...