Word: importance
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...JACKY TERRASSON Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note). Seated at the piano, this 30-year-old Parisian import doesn't just play a song; he seizes it, takes it through his own looking glass and refracts it in ways that squeeze fresh thrills out of old Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter jazz standards. Terrasson's debut served notice that here is a star in the making...
...HAMLET Out on the edges, in the supporting cast, one could quibble with this Broadway import from London. But who wanted to carp when Ralph Fiennes stood so commandingly at center stage, embodying a "sweet prince" of roiling depths and racing intelligence...
...budget deficit drive down investment, it also creates a trade deficit. Since the budget deficit in recent years has been so large, it has routinely eaten up an enormous proportion of domestic savings. The savings left over generally cannot meet the demands for domestic investment so America must import foreign capital to make up the difference...
...general rule of foreign trade is that net capital outflows must match the trade balance. Since the United States, due to its huge budget deficit, must import capital, it must also run a trade deficit to balance the other side of the equation. The result has been a steadily increasing trade deficit for much of the past two decades...
Tucker seems to think that the Christmas tree itself has religious import for Christians. Today, the so-called Christmas Tree is Christian in name only. It really symbolizes belief in a jolly overweight man who lives at the North Pole and brings gifts to a billion people in a 24-hour period with flying reindeer and elves. It has to do with shopping and 20 percent off sales and flashing lights. It has nothing to do with Jesus, or with what lies at the heart of Christianity and Christmas. They say you can't take the Christ...