Word: importance
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...Will you run for President again after your current term ends in May? No way. It was a mistake [to run before] and I will carry this burden until May 19. We just signed a deal with Australia to import pumpkins, so I would prefer to become a pumpkin seller...
...Harvard sells itself” has some truth to it, but a big-time win over a women’s basketball powerhouse doesn’t hurt, either.The Crimson’s win over BC did not carry the same weight—or, perhaps more importantly, come at the same time—as did the win over Stanford, but Harvard’s toppling of the Eagles will become the benchmark of an as yet lukewarm 2006-2007 season and a tool of great import in the future. The improbable and impossible wins, like those over Stanford...
India has complained for years that Western double standards have stopped it from importing the nuclear technology and materials it needs to modernize its civilian nuclear industry. Delhi understands that developing nuclear weapons has earned it the disapproval of the West, but Indians don't accept that they should be denied weapons systems that are the strategic mainstay of powers such as China and Russia. So, you might think the news that the U.S. Congress has passed a bill that bends those rules and allows India to import nuclear fuel would be celebrated in this energy-hungry economic powerhouse...
...Government corruption is also a formidable obstacle, as it is in many developing countries. "If you need land, you have to pay a bribe," says Kazimi, the former Commerce Minister. "Electricity, you have to pay someone off. To import goods, you have to pay baksheesh. Everyone has a 'tax.'" Those who refuse to pay risk losing out to their business rivals. When Roshan, a cellular-phone company jointly owned by the Geneva-based Aga Khan Development Network, Monaco Telecom and MCT Corp. of the U.S., began building a network in Afghanistan in 2002, transmission equipment languished in customs for months...
...most of Poland's ongoing economic and political problems. Relations with Russia have deteriorated under their governance: a European Union effort to sign a new deal with Russia on energy investment collapsed on November 24 partly because of Polish objections. (Poland wanted Russia to lift a ban on the import of Polish meats and other produce, which Poles say Russia imposed in retaliation for Polish support of the so-called Orange Revolution in neighboring Ukraine). The brothers have maintained Poland's historical support for the U.S., commanding a sector of Iraq and agreeing this month to send 1000 additional troops...