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Word: import (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Libya, much less improve their objectionable behavior. The Turkish gas deal is a case in point. "These laws have nothing to do with fighting terrorism," says French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette. Of course, the Europeans do have an economic interest in retaining links to the outcasts: they import nearly 20% of their oil from Iran and Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAKING ON THE WORLD | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...present in the samples are magnetite and iron sulfide, which on Earth are associated with bacterial action. "As the number of solar systems and planets we've discovered increases," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger, "it becomes less and less likely that we are alone in the universe. The major import of this discovery could be the realization that life doesn't have to be an outrageously unlikely assemblage of improbable elements. Perhaps, given light, water and a few rudimentary hydrocarbons life could begin relatively easily." -->