Word: importances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embargo has tightened, Cuba has had to import more drugs from Europe, Japan and Canada, tripling costs of the medications needed to treat and prevent, for example, typhoid and whooping cough. A 1992 U.S. law forbids foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to sell to Cuba; Dutch and Swedish firms report that they too are being pressured by Washington to stop providing such items as catheters and sutures. A Canadian firm was even barred from selling Cuba a U.S.-made steel pin to repair a broken operating table. Medical journals are included under the embargo...
...Tony Award front runner for best revival and best set -- a category rarely won by a straight play -- is the London import An Inspector Calls, a drawing- room melodrama exploded into a streetscape of urban despair. The opening scenes are daringly played inside an enclosed mini-mansion that gradually opens and finally topples, a metaphor for the collapse of capitalism. Brilliant as the effect is, one wonders whether the creators realize what economic system actually did fall apart in recent years...
There are many courses at Harvard that parachute you into an arcane debate, with little explanation of the historical context, the basic forces at work, or the import of the outcome...
...lunch with a Russian scientist and two former military officers. Ignoring the freezing wind, we ate brown bread heaped with butter and red caviar. We drank tea from a thermos that had given up its heat hours ago, and stamped our feet in the snow as we discussed the import of a meeting held two hours earlier...
Despite these modern changes, the philosophical import of this production seems hardly different from that of the original. Aristophanes' Lysistrata, while revolutionary when it was first performed in 411 BCE, runs counter to today's definition of feminism. And neither the acting nor the guiding philosophy behind this production manages to bring it up to date. The female characters of the play, daringly swearing off sex to force their warring husbands to declare a truce, nevertheless fail to present a strong revolutionary image...