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...food imports in London are called "the cream line" because the prices rise to the top: Mayfair restaurants pay up to $2.16 per lb. for American asparagus and charge diners $3.30 per serving of seven sticks. French shoppers have learned to ask for Indian River grapefruit by name, even though the Florida product costs 35? each, twice the price of Mediterranean fruit. Among the most popular U.S. foods are innards like liver, hearts and kidneys. Europeans regard them as delicacies, particularly the cheap young American variety, and import $40 million worth a year. The French transform some of the pork...
...nation was a vast cultural transplant to begin with. All along, Americans have sought to import something of their heritage more solid than themselves-the literature, theater and music of Europe and now, for black Americans, the culture of Africa...
...Outside of Japan, today's Asian auto industry is small and largely uneconomical. Nearly every country has its own assembly plants. Ford is the first American industrialist to offer a product designed especially for developing countries, to be produced on the basis of regional cooperation and duty-free import of components. His project would allow each country to reap the benefits of the economies of scale and specialization by sharing in a large market instead of having a small market all to itself. That is precisely the sort of industrial opportunity that farsighted Asian leaders, economists and businessmen have...
Ruth is a whore, although the audience doesn't know it yet. The true import of Pinter's words, like the pronouncements of Cassandra, are never quite clear until the scene has been fully played out. The joke is on the actors, but also on the audience, for the broad one-liners always turn out to have a deeper meaning. This is the essence of Pinter: the audience snickers and chuckles its way through the play, only to realize at the end, that it was not funny...
Wooing Whom? One reason, apparently, is that Detroit did not make its subcompacts quite good enough or cheap enough to win over the majority of import buyers. A stripped-down, two-door Vega, for example, sells for $2,091 (including federal excise tax and dealer preparation charges) and a Pinto for $1,944, v. $1,899 for the basic Volkswagen. The subcompacts, though, are small and cheap enough to attract many motorists who might buy bigger U.S.-made cars if they felt more flush, but whose desire for economy has been sharpened by the bite of the 1970 recession...