Word: importantally
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While the canal remains an important artery for commerce, it accounts for only about 5% of seaborne world trade, a figure that has held steady for the past 16 years. New pipelines, including one that cuts through Panama, have stolen much of the oil trade, and air freight and sea...
Secretary of State James Baker and his colleagues in the Bush Administration would have none of that. Convinced that Gorbachev will make concession after concession if the U.S. sits tight, Baker deliberately carried no significant new ideas to Moscow last week for the most important superpower meeting since the new...
More important, Bush offered to work with Congress for a "temporary waiver" of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which sharply restricts U.S.-Soviet trade unless the Kremlin allows free emigration of Soviet Jews and other citizens. The condition: the Kremlin must write into Soviet law liberalized definitions of who can...
Unlike some takeover artists, Perelman has a reputation as a hands-on manager who tends to retain and operate the companies he captures rather than break them up. When Revlon embarked on an advertising campaign featuring portraits of "unforgettable women," Perelman took a personal interest in picking the models. Even...
More important than rancor over specific positions is the impression that social crusading is turning the faith into a "political agenda masked with a veneer of spirituality," in the harsh words of Kent Hill of the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy. A. James Reichley of the Brookings Institution believes...