Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quality and quantity of American singers have risen sharply-though many still have to go to Europe to serve their apprenticeship. But even that trend is beginning to reverse itself as Dallas, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Boston and Chicago develop their own troupes, though they still continue to import the finest singers from the international circuit. In 1950, for example, there were 200 opera companies in the U.S.; today there are more than 700-amateur and semiprofessional for the most part, but all bristling with energy and enterprise...
...calm and nearly as prosperous as ever. Salisbury's streets are clogged with cars-whose tanks are filled with gasoline sneaked across the border from South Africa and Mozambique. Factories are still running at nearly full speed, and white unemployment is virtually nonexistent. The country can import whatever it likes from South Africa. There is a desperate shortage of golf balls, and Rhodesian whites are having to make do with locally produced candy, clothing and false teeth, but nothing essential is missing from the shelves...
...Ivory Coast's U.S. ambassador since 1961, Bédié became one of Washington's best-liked foreign diplomats. Last week on a farewell visit to Washington he proposed a reduction on Ivory Coast import tariffs in return for increased U.S. purchases of Ivorian products. He was also casting about for increased U.S. capital investment in the Ivory Coast. From a U.S. viewpoint, the generous "tax holidays" the Ivory Coast is willing to grant in return for investments make the idea attractive. But there is an Ivorian benefit too: every new U.S. investor makes Houphouet-Boigny...
...reason. In this prodigious, labyrinthine fiction, the reader is constantly baffled and bamboozled by trap doors and intellectual booby traps. Reading Giles Goat-Boy, and debating its meaning, will surely be one of the most bracing literary exercises of 1966 and beyond. It is a satire of major import...
...Even before publication it provoked a flurry of attention from gun manufacturers, sportsmen's clubs, self-styled patriotic organizations, and the 700,000-member National Rifle Association, all of which are opposing a bill, now in a Senate subcommittee, that would put stiffer federal limits on the import and sale of firearms. Bakal's work seems certain to become one of the most widely debated books of the year. The publisher, hoping that it will stir as much commotion as Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's polemic against insecticides, likes to call it Silent Springfield...