Word: importance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possible assistance programs is lengthy, and Clinton is determined that Yeltsin not leave empty-handed when the two meet in Canada on April 3, assuming they still do. Much of what is being proposed is warmed-over Bush Administration stuff, including an innovative $2 billion fund the Export-Import Bank would target at Russia's sizable oil industry, a plan that acknowledges the money needed to remake the country is in the ground. But the benefits of aiding Russia's energy sector won't be realized overnight, and Senator Bill Bradley's estimable technical- assistance and exchange-program ideas will...
...point in the play, Donny and Teach plan a petty heist. The characters, who are so marginal and out of touch, never discuss the moral import of their theft. All they do is worry that they might be caught. Society has neglected them for so long that they perceive no limits to their actions and are unconcerned with the effects they might have on others...
...ratified by Congress, NAFTA would eliminate virtually all import-export barriers among the United States, Canada and Mexico over the next fifteen years. The fact that the 360 million consumers in this free trade area would automatically benefit from lowered prices should be a major impetus for the treaty's ratification...
...going to lose a lot of people from the social sciences," he said. De Long sees a sort of "snowball effect" happening, as Harvard experts already in Washington import their colleagues and students...
...found the changes welcome. "Everything is much speedier," said Mario Sivieri, who runs a horse-transport business from Milan. Twelve hours has been shaved off the time it takes to ship a breeding mare from Italy to Ireland and back, saving $700 on the round trip. A dozen export-import forms were eliminated, and veterinary checks now take place only at the destination. As for Sivieri trucker Carlo Boldrini, who used to spend nights in the horse trailer when frontier posts closed for the day, "stress is reduced...