Word: importent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These bills came on top of no fewer than 150 others under consideration by Conyers' House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime. They range from a weak measure offered by President Ford that would prohibit the import and manufacture of cheap ($25) "Saturday night specials" to a proposal to outlaw the sale, ownership or possession of all handguns by private citizens. This and many other measures would be largely unenforceable. But the appalling fact is that despite the recent near tragedies and the countless tragedies that lie ahead for victims of gun wounds, not one of these 150 bills has much...
...twin figures of Love and Evil, gyrating in painted ecstacy on Wizard's backboard, could not preside over a scene of more nearly apocalyptic import. It will never again be possible to construct a pinball machine with the relatively simple patterns we are familiar with--one bumper, regardless of sequence, predictably changing the value of another. In Wizard, only after the Thumper Bumper target is hit, or the Center Target target, are the appropriate flags flipped and roll-overs activated. And only then can the roll-overs activate their respective functions. The relationships of the many elements of the pinball...
...doubted that Detroit could respond quickly to public clamor for low-cost transportation, but the Chevette was rushed into production in just 18 months. It will go on sale next month, with the initial marketing effort in cities that have been strongholds for Datsun (now the No. 1 selling import) and Volkswagen. GM's main target city: Los Angeles, where 49% of all new cars sold in August were built overseas. During the next twelve months, GM hopes to sell about 275,000 Chevettes, enough to help reduce imports' share of the U.S. market 5% to around...
...real dirt-what the French call le hard core-has come from the U.S. One American import, History of the Blue Movie (seductively retitled Anthologie du Plaisir), recently played at 14 theaters in Paris. French distributors are now fighting for the rights to such American porn "classics" as Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door...
...period of 39 months, with the major impact coming after the November 1976 elections-was voted down in July. Many Democrats have deep ideological objections to price rises that fatten oil-company profits. At the same time, the Democrats have no agreed strategy for forcing energy conservation and curtailing imports. Alternative ideas -rationing, import quotas, stiff taxes on energy usage-cannot survive even a congressional vote, let alone a veto...