Word: import
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While candid about his opposition to the Vietnam War, Clinton has also insisted he never received special treatment. So when the story broke Monday, he appeared momentarily rattled. Initially, he said "everyone involved" in the account is now dead, which is inaccurate. Then he alternately denied the import of the piece and maintained that he had already explained his behavior fully. Until Friday, his aides claimed Clinton was and is unaware of his uncle's activities -- whatever they might have been. But then came a report in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette quoting a retired naval reserve officer, Trice Ellis...
...didn't find any moral dilemmas whatsoever. I didn't feel that just because she was Mia's daughter, there was any great moral dilemma. It was a fact, but not one with any great import. It wasn't like she was my daughter...
...next 10 to 15 years. Currently those barriers average nearly 11% in Mexico, around 5% in Canada and less than 4% in the U.S. (though duties on products like cocoa, for example, go as high as 20% in Mexico; in Canada tequila is slapped with a 183% duty). More important will be the steps that NAFTA takes to diminish nontariff barriers, such as dairy and cotton quotas in the U.S. and Canada, and various import licenses in Mexico. By rapidly widening the consumer market, the pact aims to spur capital investment across all three jurisdictions. This would be a striking...
...most of its bumpy, 10-year history, General Motors' Saturn project was derided by auto-industry critics as a $5 billion ugly duckling -- an experimental, money-losing attempt to match the value and quality of import models. To ensure customer satisfaction, Saturn built cars at its all-new plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., with the crawly pace of a craft shop. It also gained something of a quirky reputation for recalling them at the tiniest hitch...
...those vanities. This spring 470 coal miners arrived in Madrid after marching more than 300 miles from Leon in the north to protest layoffs. Villagers on the harsh Castillian plateau turned out to applaud and even sing to them; television stations filmed the blisters on their feet. "If they import Polish coal, our valley will die," said Eugenio Carpintero, 32, swigging wine from a leather pouch on a blustery afternoon. Outside the Guadarrama Hospital, nurses and patients cheered, "Viva los mineros...