Word: importance
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...face of racial and social adversity, a message that resonates powerfully despite the track’s playful pace. “Hey, desperate youth! / Oh, blood thirsty babes! / Oh your guns are pointed / your guns are pointed the wrong way,” Adebimpe sings with disarming import...
...consumers aren't allowed to import cheaper drugs, then U.S. companies should not be allowed to outsource our jobs to cheaper labor markets. CHARLIE SPRATT Charlotte...
...muscling for market share. GM, which has made Buicks in China since 1999, will soon launch top-of-the-line Cadillacs and plans to increase total production 50% in the next two years. In a first for the country, Beijing recently announced it will allow GM to import cars made overseas without going through a Chinese partner. Ford plans to increase production sevenfold, to 150,000 cars a year. Volkswagen, maker of the best-selling cars in China, plans to invest $6.5 billion with its joint-venture partner to double annual capacity at its Shanghai plant to a million cars...
...Representative Gil Gutknecht, a Minnesota Republican, and approved in July by a vote of 243 to 186. Notably, Gutknecht's language provided ample protection for consumers--long the argument cited by the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry for prohibiting Canadian drug purchases. The provision authorized U.S. pharmacies to import prescription drugs made in Canada and other industrialized countries as long as manufacturers used counterfeit-resistant technologies and the drugs were approved...
...charged FDA to enforce require that drugs be proven to be safe and effective to be legal," says commissioner Mark McClellan. "While FDA will continue to do all it can to make safe and affordable drugs available, we are also committed to enforcing the law against those ... [who] import illegal, unapproved and potentially risky medicines...