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...provides a livelihood for almost 70 per cent of her population. But now that other Asian rice producers have regained their feet, she is losing her monopoly. For the last three years, sales have declined until now she exports only 50 per cent of her surplus crops. Despite severe import restrictions, the balance of payments have been negative since...
...Inspired Import. In Vienna people arrive fashionably late at the theater, and operettas hold off their big numbers for the end. What worried Prawy was Kate's big ballet scene, which opens the show. This scene alone, he felt, might mean success or failure. As the scene ended on opening night, there was dead silence. Prawy, an old hand at the claque game, clapped once-and started five minutes of thunderous applause. After that, Kate was in. The musicians swung as lightly as if they had not been raised in three-quarter time; the American principals sang in pleasingly...
Harvard and its educational neighbors have, however, always stood in a peculiar relationship to the community. As institutions with national support, they import and spend locally a tremendous amount of capital...
...tourist attraction, a cultural center, and an economic factor, Harvard is one of the city's most valuable assets. The annual payroll amounts to about 25 million dollars. The annual consumption of goods and services comes to another 10 million dollars. Students import and spend still more money, pouring a million dollars annually into housing alone...
...other sports, Lamar said, the temptation for colleges to import highly-trained amateur boxers was too great and teams such as Virginia, Syracuse, and Penn State each year included several A.A.U. champions...