Word: importent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLETHORA OF reporting and analysis concerning the Nixon Administration's attack on First Amendment rights seems almost incestuous because of the vested interests of the media. The press should be so diligent on other issues of equal import. Yet, the media's persistence in challenging the Nixonian ill-regard for the First Amendment grows out of an endemic responsibility to safeguard the public. Self-righteous as it sometimes appears, this feeling is deep-seated throughout the print and broadcast industry. Examples have been abundant of late. Half a dozen newsmen have chosen to go to jail rather than violate confidential...
...most serious problem; on finished goods, they average 8.5% in Japan and 8% in the Common Market v. 8.4% in the U.S. But the Common Market lavishes on its farmers subsidies that are generous even by U.S. standards, encouraging them to grow food that could be imported more cheaply from the U.S. Beyond that, it maintains a system of variable import taxes that can be adjusted upward to keep the price of American foodstuffs as high as they were before dollar devaluation...
More recently Sullivan has been dividing his time between the White House and the State Department, poring over background material and briefing Kissinger for the newest talks in Hanoi. From Hanoi, Sullivan will fly to Saigon, Vientiane, Phnom-Penh and Bangkok to brief allied officials on the import of the negotiations. Then back to Washington and off again to Paris, where Sullivan will act as deputy to Secretary of State William Rogers for the U.S. delegation at the international guarantee conference on Viet Nam, beginning...
...there is no doubt that the diplomatic communications gap comes at an awkward time. It coincides ominously with the threat of a U.S. Japanese economic confrontation, as dramatized by the dollar crisis and the warnings of U.S. Trade Negotiator William D. Eberle that Congress might impose an import surcharge if Japan does not do more to reduce its lopsided trade surplus with...
...Papadopoulos rule seems a tolerable annoyance when weighed against the benefits of growth. More businessmen may soon be investing, particularly if other governments continue to put controls on investments by foreigners to halt speculation in the dollar. As a developing country, Greece has used its foreign currency to import needed goods, and it has no surplus of dollars. Thus it is likely to remain a nation in which a foreigner can freely bring in capital and start a business...