Word: imported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improvement was costly: it was due in part to a controversial 15% import tax that has angered Britain's trading partners and seriously threatened the future of the European Free Trade Association, the seven-nation, non-Common Market trading group that Britain dominates...
Prohibition came to Kuwait as deviously as an Arab horse trade. In theory only Christian residents of the predominantly Moslem nation could drink, using ration cards to obtain whisky through London's Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., which has had an import monopoly on Kuwait's liquor flow for decades. In fact, Moslems imbibed increasingly, and drunken-driving fatalities mounted apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record...
...Wall Street law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Other principals are ex-Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes (now a General Motors vice president); the estate of ex-Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; and two ChineseAmerican businessmen, C. Y. Chen and C. T. Shen, who made a fortune in export-import and shipping...
Chaucer visited Italy in the 14th century, and Shakespeare patterned numerous plays on Italian scenarios, but it took the Renaissance's archetypical gentleman, Castiglione, author of The Book of the Courtier, to import the pictorial arts to Britain. A diplomat to Henry VII, he brought as a gift a portrait of St. George by Raphael...
Britain needs to import vast quantities of food and raw material to live, but it seems increasingly unable to afford the price of these imports. Although British exports are still among the world's highest and have risen steadily in absolute terms, the nation's share of world exports has been steadily declining. A measure of Britain's plight is that the Beatles' 1963 overseas earnings of $56 million was hailed as a major contribution to the balance of payments. Another measure is that in the past decade Britain has almost exactly reversed positions with Germany...