Word: importent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heat their homes in winter, more electricity to cool them in summer. The U.S. now burns up the equivalent of 1.9 billion tons of fossil fuel every year (30% of the world's consumption) but produces only 1.7 billion tons-and the gap is widening. It must import the rest. Says S. David Freeman, former energy expert for Presidents Johnson and Nixon: "Our rates of consumption are so large that we can see the bottom of the barrel...
...ceremony almost every day. It had all been stage-managed carefully and the accords had been worked on for months or even years. Theoretically, they could have been revealed to the world without the Kremlin spectacular. Yet the way in which they were signed and sealed gave them special import...
...import quotas have been something of a sacred cow through four successive U.S. Administrations, certainly including Richard Nixon's. Yet last week Nixon signed a proclamation allowing importers to bring in an average 230,000 bbl. more a day for 1972, about 15% more than before. Because there are just over seven months left in the year, the daily increase will really amount...
...visible relaxation of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The Soviets probably will settle their old World War II Lend Lease debt, an otherwise minor irritant that has handicapped trade between the two countries because the U.S. Export-Import Bank cannot, by law, deal with the Russians until the default is cleared up. Both sides will now probably sign agreements during the presidential visit providing for improved shipping arrangements between the two countries and for the largest sale of U.S. grain to Russia since the cold war began...
...same prices we paid 20 years ago? How do we stay in business? We borrow a little more, we have our eleven-year-old son work full time in the hayfield, we work from daylight till dark-and now, during calving, part of the night, too. Boycott meat or import it-either way, when American beef producers are bankrupt, the inferior imported beef will have the housewife crying louder than...