Word: importance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Consider, too, Bush's decisions surrounding the import of automatic weapons. Again, drug shootings had become a major public issue, with Washington--Bush's place of residence--making headlines as the nation's murder capital. Bush balked on using the issue as an opportunity to make a public stand, and only issued his mediocre response--a temporary ban on some automatic weapons after considerable public uproar...
...apartment to our standards is $100,000, if you can find one. And to keep the Western employees sane, you have to fly them out of the country at least four times a year." Because employees feel deprived of their comforts, some companies provide allowances, so that personnel can import such hard-to- find items as toothpaste, fruit, toilet paper and fresh vegetables...
While the price of petroleum is still a long way from its $35-a-bbl. peak in 1981, the U.S. is sliding back to a level of dependence on foreign sources not seen since the oil-shock days of the 1970s. January petroleum imports averaged 8.1 million bbl. a day, up almost 21% from a year ago and surpassing domestic production (8 million bbl.) for the first time in more than a decade. The import surge has hampered efforts to shrink the U.S. trade deficit, and rising prices have aggravated inflationary pressure...
...Tuesday, one day after he was sworn in as "drug czar," Bennett talked * the import ban over with Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, whose department oversees the BATF. Bennett got word to White House chief of staff John Sununu about the plan. When the White House did not object, Bennett and Higgins went ahead and announced the import ban last Tuesday...
...indictment accuses Escobar, Rodriguez, Mejia, Reed and the two Ochoas of running a continuing criminal enterprise--punishable by a maximum life sentence--and conspiracy to import drugs...