Word: importent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regards the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo as a "triumph of diplomacy." Force of arms, not diplomacy, was the means by which the U.S. stripped Mexico of half of its national territory. Today the U.S.'s regional hegemony depends on ownership of advanced technology, "credit diplomacy," preferential tariffs, import quotas, trade embargoes, and the politics of profit repatriation...
...several reasons. First, they reversed two years of disastrous sales decline that had led some critics of Detroit to believe, mistakenly, that the American public's longstanding love affair with the auto was ending. Second, buyers turned away from foreign cars to snap up the American makes. Import sales actually declined in 1976 to 14.3% of the total market, their smallest share in four years. Two reasons: imports are heavily concentrated in no longer popular small cars, and the rising value of the German mark and the Japanese yen has pushed prices up sharply...
Still, the shortage is more potential than actual: by dipping into stockpiles, producers have maintained high exports, and the U.S. has found almost as much coffee to import as ever. To shore up their shaky economies, however, Brazil and other coffee-producing nations have increased export taxes on beans and reaped windfalls. Brazil's tax per pound has jumped from 22? to 75? Colombia, the second largest producer, now demands $1.47 per pound in taxes. Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Frederick W. Richmond, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, charges that "this is a crisis dreamed up by coffee-exporting...
...test animals. One report from Egypt linked the pesticide to the deaths of some 1,200 water buffalo, and a study from an EPA laboratory showed that it could cause leg weakness and paralysis in fowl. Yet it was not until 1975 that the agency acted to ban the import into the U.S. of foods containing any traces of leptophos...
...source of energy is becoming not only prohibitively expensive, but its import is a drain on our economy. Why then is there silence about the use of alcohol as fuel for automobiles in place of gasoline? Its effectiveness has been established over the years by its use in racing cars. Studies show that it is at least equal to gasoline in its efficiency, creates less pollution, can be used in existing engines with only minor adjustment, and can be abundantly and cheaply produced...