Word: importances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albuquerque the weekend he moved Microsoft to Seattle. Later he bought a Porsche 930 Turbo he called the "rocket," then a Mercedes, a Jaguar XJ6, a $60,000 Carrera Cabriolet 964, a $380,000 Porsche 959 that ended up impounded in a customs shed because it couldn't meet import emission standards, and a Ferrari 348 that became known as the "dune buggy" after he spun it into the sand...
...children continue their search for Santa, from city to city and through layer after layer of subcontractors, while Cruella, leading her own army of death-dealing action figures, pursues them. Jack Nicholson in his Joker outfit shows up somewhere along the way as, say, a Hong Kong-based export-import whiz, and at one point Jack and Cruella break into a duet: "Tiny wages for tiny people/ That's the way it goes/ They're lucky to have work/ As everybody knows/ You don't need money anyway, if you're only eight...
...that much money for a student government) and often reduces itself to petty infighting, they ignore the democratic process which is in and of itself a beneficial lesson and source of communal attachment. The political dialogue among students and their representatives on issues of common import do much to enhance our notion of community...
INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PC COMDEX's hottest technology appeared to do the impossible--import the legendarily clunky Windows desktop operating system to handheld computers from the likes of Casio, Compaq and Philips. The NEC Mobile Pro HPC runs fist-size versions of Microsoft Word and Excel on a 5-in. screen...
...perilous consequences for a country hovering on the threshold of economic collapse after 30 years of high-handed rule. But since September, when Zaire's eastern provinces fell under attack from local Tutsi rebels, Mobutu's uncertain condition--and continued hold on power--has been a matter of dire import. Three weeks ago, Le Monde reported that his prostate cancer had metastasized to his bones. But a guest whom Mobutu received last week found that he looked relaxed and appeared in command of himself. Mobutu planned to return to Lausanne for more tests and said he is keen...