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Those hopes flared brightly last September when the Ford Pinto and Chevy Vega began rolling off assembly lines to join the American Motors Gremlin in battling the imports. By then it was too late to keep imported-car sales from climbing to a 1970 record of 1,245,793 cars, or 14.9% of the U.S. market. American executives hoped that the availability of the three subcompacts would hold 1971 import sales to about 1,000,000 cars, or around 10% of a slightly larger market. Instead, imports so far in 1971 are accounting for 15.5% of all cars sold...
Once a wealthy import-export businessman, Sioris now holds a powerful post in the Greek military regime-the Ministry of Religion and Education-which many consider the commissariat of propaganda in a country where official views and explanations are accepted with a minimum of resistance...
...whose multiple playing-areas the actors express their personalities. The informal appearance of Renoir's films, especially those before his American period, consists in this: such clearly formal cinematic means as framing and tracking are incorporated into the playing of a scene instead of signifying the scene's import directly to the audience, as in most film...
...atmosphere of the city, especially in Harvard housing with its sealed-off living units. I remember walking up the four flights of Thayer Middle in September 1967, and seeing these four grey, automatically-closing doors on each floor. In this situation, you've got to import as much life into your room as possible, and a pet is perhaps the best way. "It's more human," one student said when asked why he kept...
Something to Worry About. Administration officials set no limits on how far jawboning might go. Initially, they talked of attacking only those industries in which the Government has some direct leverage-such as oil and steel, which are protected by import quotas, and construction, in which Washington finances some 20% of all building. Last week Nixon men were dropping reminders that all things considered there are few if any industries in which the Government does not have some influence on prices...