Word: importance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this downsizing, which has come on top of a severe three-year recession that ended last October, helped push Japan's traditionally low unemployment rate to 3% last year, the highest since 1987. "If the yen continues to appreciate," says Shigeki Tejima, a senior economist at the Export-Import Bank of Japan, "Japanese companies will be forced to stress international competitiveness more than maintaining jobs at home...
...Grand, in a desert stopover called Las Vegas. Well, somebody has to put on musical spectacles, and Vegas has a dozen or so. This year, while Manhattan's mainstream theaters could find only a single original tune show--and that, Lloyd Webber's Sunset Blvd., was an import from London and Los Angeles--Vegas' casino hotels are proving that the old form still has sass, vibrancy and audience appeal. And size. And how! Four big productions will have opened by Memorial Day: EFX, the magic show Spellbound, a permanent edition of The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular and Splash...
Students must band together and become socially aware and active. We must work together to strengthen the Harvard community and the country. That entails social service, intellectual debate, a commitment to lead, and a belief that our opinions are of some import...
...problems which beset professional women--in all of their zeitgeist-framing import--often make for good copy. And while their concerns are certainly legitimate, their problems recede into insignificance when compared and contrasted with those faced by women who occupy lower socioeconomic strata. Women on welfare and women who head lowincome families face what seem to be insurmountable barriers to successful integration into the nation's economic life...
...work can take its toll on the case officer as well. NOC officers cannot count on just being expelled from countries like officers with diplomatic immunity. Their post-cold war enemies don't trade captured spies as the KGB would. NOC officers in Colombia who have set up import-export companies as covers--bribing drug couriers on the side for intelligence--have been wounded or killed in gunfights with traffickers. A NOC officer serving in Africa was beaten up and jailed for a month. Another, grabbed by a Hizballah faction in Beirut, managed to talk his way out by convincing...