Word: importance
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...process of understanding what dreams represent and what import their meanings may have upon life is the major practical and philosophical question that Mark-Alem must face. Yet as he attempts to evaluate this unreal world, he slowly drifts away from the one he had been a part of. "How tedious, grasping, and confined this world seemed in comparison with the one he now served," he reflects on his first day off. Here Kadare explores not only the immense, controlling structure of the state, but also its influence on those who participate in it, conscious of their collaboration. And although...
Brown is far too intelligent to import wholesale the Vanity Fair formula, or to attempt a baldfaced reprise of her resuscitating strategies at that publication. Her New Yorker contains vestigial remains of her predecessors' magazine...
Yesterday's match against Boston College was postponed until Thursday night, the same night as the Crimson's matchup with arch-rival Brown. Compared to the import of that game, this weekend was Angel Food cake...
Likewise the Brady bill, even combined with Clinton's Executive Order banning the import of assault pistols, will have little impact on young men who already have their guns or can easily steal them. The weapons of choice on the streets right now are made in America. Guns like the TEC-9, MAC-10 and MAC-11 semiautomatic, though inaccurate, are cheap, terrifying, easily hidden and handily converted to automatic. Sales have soared since 1989, when President Bush banned the import of semiautomatic assault rifles such as the Chinese-made AK-47 knock-off used by a deranged gunman...
...bill that would mandate a five-day waiting period for gun purchasers, provide $3.4 billion to put 50,000 more police on the street nationwide -- an 8% increase -- and limit the number of appeals that may be filed by death-row inmates. Clinton also announced Executive Orders suspending the import of assault-style handguns and tightening licensing requirements for gun dealers...