Word: insular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese emphasis on precision and heavy industrial products? Much of it stems from pressure by U.S. producers, who have forced Japan to clamp quotas on its lighter, less complex exports, e.g., textiles, tuna, stainless steel flatware, umbrella frames. The insular Japanese live or die by trade. Particularly must they export to the U.S.; last year their imports from the U.S. ran 55% ahead of their exports. Thus they have decided that if the U.S. tightens one market, the way to compete is simply to turn to another...
...painted a vivid, quasi-existential portrait of an Outsider. He has also given his novel at least as many symbolic levels of meaning as the triple-tiered Golden Temple. In the U.S. the book is unlikely to match its Japanese success, but its underlying theme is far from insular-that beauty, and perhaps civilization itself, may inhibit and paralyze the will to live...
Munoz went to work on the Puerto Ricans by holding to a middle course between the Republicanos and the Independentistas. In 1938 he established a third party the Partido Popular, and in 1940 the party won its first electoral victory in the insular senate. In these years of the late '30's and the early '40's Munoz had very carefully identified himself with the collectivist tide that had swept the mainland in the shape of the New Deal. The Republicanos who opposed the collective measures discredited themselves by being in the unenviable position of opposing a source of financial...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--A bill to make Hawaii the 50th state moved one step forward yesterday by getting a 5-4 vote of approval by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs...
...nonpolitical council, whose corporate members range from huge General Motors to small Insular Lumber Co., called for an increased flow of private U.S. capital abroad, more lending authority for the Government's Export-Import Bank. It also put itself squarely on the side of free trade in the coming congressional battle by protectionists to end President Eisenhower's tariff-cutting powers, which are up for renewal next June 30. Rather than revoke the powers, said the council, Congress should extend them "with adequate authority to safeguard vital interests of domestic American industries in line with the national interest...