Word: importancies
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...Imports accounted for 50.4% of petroleum use in the U.S. last year, according to the American Petroleum Institute. This marks the first time that consumption of foreign oil has exceeded that of domestically produced oil. Imports reached 8.9 million bbl. per day, eclipsing by 109,000 bbl. per day the previous import record, set in 1977. Lobbyists are expected to use the statistics to pressure Congress to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska...
There is another issue, of even larger public import, raised by the insult itself: What should a woman do when a fellow calls her a bitch? We already know Hillary Clinton's response. She invited the perpetrator and his mom to her house for a visit and consulted with women from the press on how to yet again "soften her image." But could there perhaps be some other form of response, one that would be less humiliating to Ms. Clinton and the entire female race...
...Americans (including 14.6 million children, or 1 of every 5 kids) still live in poverty -- a higher percentage of the population than when L.B.J. left office in 1969. Therefore, say the Republicans, the war failed, and its programs should be cut or wiped out entirely -- which is the clear import of the fiscal policies Gingrich proposes...
...gives his name only as Mark from Michigan says he fears that America will be subsumed into "one big, fuzzy, warm planet where nobody has any borders." Samuel Sherwood, head of the United States Militia Association in Blackfoot, Idaho, tells followers, absurdly, that the Clinton Administration is planning to import 100,000 Chinese policemen to take guns away from Americans...
President Clinton signed the historic General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs today, launching U.S. entry into a 123-nation trade accord to slash import tariffs here and abroad. But he did so over vehement protests from critics who say GATT will undermine American labor by ending penalties against the products of low-wage workers from other countries. "Hey, Bill! You're selling out!" a man with a megaphone outside the Organization of American States shouted as Clinton arrived for the ceremony. Clinton's reply to the public: "We must never run away from the world." The treaty cuts global tariffs...