Word: importance
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...dollars' worth of bogus Louis Vuitton, Prada, Coach, Chanel, Christian Dior and Fendi merchandise in thirty 40-ft. containers through Port Elizabeth, N.J. According to the customs officials, 15 of the defendants are Chinese nationals who are part of two separate crime networks that use shell companies to import counterfeit luxury goods from China and distribute them through storefronts on Canal Street. Each organization paid undercover agents $50,000 a container to look the other way. These might be run-of-the-mill crime rings, but both customs and Interpol have warned in recent months that counterfeit merchandising is also...
...construction of the 720-km security barrier going up along the edge of the West Bank as part of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "separation plan." But their target is not Israel. The suit charges that officials in Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority (P.A.) have profited by importing cement using dubious import licenses and selling it to Israeli contractors building the wall. Try to imagine officials in the Kennedy Administration selling cement to East Berlin construction firms back in 1961 and you'll get an idea of why ordinary Palestinians are so furious about the allegations. Hassan Khreisheh, deputy...
Pittsburgh, Pa., Bishop Donald Wuerl has recently asserted that "sometimes a single issue will be so important that it overrides a whole range of lesser issues." Yet many experts who confirm abortion's import insist that the issue does not impose lockstep political behavior on believing voters. The church allows believers commonsense, or "prudential," latitude in fitting doctrine to political action. That is not license to contradict teaching, but an acknowledgment of the delicacy of its application in the real world. In practice, says the Rev. John Langan of Georgetown University, prudence could translate into supporting Pennsylvania's pro-choice...
HEALTH CARE Kerry wants to import cheap drugs from Canada, which would hurt stocks like Pfizer, Merck and Eli Lilly. Bush opposes such imports. But hospital firms may do better with Kerry, who wants to expand Medicaid and give more patients the means to pay their bills. "Companies like HCA have been hindered by bad-debt expense," says Wendell Perkins of Johnson Family funds. "We like HCA anyway, but a Kerry win would make it more attractive...
...vast majority of cases, when Harvard students try to effect change in anything other than student-run organizations, they fail. And to the extent that they do succeed, it is largely—as in the case of preregistration—on issues of circumscribed, if not trivial, import...