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...month's Dublin summit of Common Market government leaders who granted concessions to make Britain's continued participation more acceptable. They approved renegotiated terms that could give Britain an annual refund of up to $300 million on its contributions to the Community budget and allow it to import New Zealand butter at low duty rates...
...academic team had enough ties to reel in the biggest companies--Nissan, Toyoto and Mitsubishi (a Japanese import-export firm)--despite the fact that none of these grants were tax-exempt in Japan. And the links Reischauer forged as ambassador to Japan in the 1960s figured significantly in the Japanese government's presentation last year of $1 million to Harvard to support Japanese studies...
This might have passed for just another ramshackle kung-fu import if it were not for the ad campaign, which promised "the first X-rated fight scenes in screen history." The M.P.A.A. is usually stern about sexual content, but almost carefree about violence. What about The Street Fighter could have raised the organization...
...door of the White House for an hour's conversation with his old Hill colleague. Ford went over his program. Ullman said he just could not agree that Ford's way was right. There ought to be quotas, a gas tax, a 90-day delay on the import fee. He had given all that serious thought, the President responded, but he had decided the other route was best. Ullman said he could understand but he still would have to oppose. And Ford said that he could understand Ullman's position but he, Ford, was going to push...
...surprising that these overtures come at a time when rising sugar prices have created a need for a new import market. But it is good that the government realizes that the Cuban revolution cannot be undone, and important that an American ambassador be sent to Cuba in the near future...