Word: important
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wince, as Dave Henderson or Carney Lansford gets the clutch hit. Scan the depth of the A's bench; almost any scrub could start on another team. Note the new recruits, just in time for the big games: slugger Harold Baines and spray hitter Willie McGee, an N.L. import who may win that league's batting title...
...They just played us off our feets," Pawlak said, before realizing the cosmic import of his grammatical error. "Off our feet. I forgot where I'm at. Where...
...Party Support--Of weightier import to the Silber camp, however, is the dearth of support their candidate will likely receive from Bellotti supporters, 75 percent of whom said they would rather abandon their party than cast a vote for Silber...
...fact, many nations would decide for themselves. Jordan even now says it will not interrupt delivery of food and medicine to Iraq or its import of Iraqi oil. China and Iran hint they are rethinking the question. Altogether, nine countries have indicated that they may seek exemptions from the embargo. From these early signals it is clear that starvation will not become a U.N. weapon. The U.S. does not want to starve Iraq either; its plan is to make Iraqis' diet so minimal that they will become resentful and discontented...
...much of Africa will have trouble paying its energy bills. Sub-Saharan Africa is already finding it difficult to handle the interest on its $135 billion foreign debt. Even the more stable economies will be badly hurt by the energy price hike. Kenya, for example, will see its oil-import bill increase from $300 million to $400 million a year if the price settles at $25 per bbl. Says Ross Wilson, a consultant at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells in Nairobi: "The question for Kenya is, How many loads can the camel take...