Word: importance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japan's economy has receded like an unusually low tide, disturbing discoveries have been made. Government agencies have attempted to cover up leaks at nuclear power plants, and local officials have ignored the hazards of toxic-waste disposal. In 1996 the Health Ministry apologized for allowing the import of tainted blood products that so far have caused more than 400 deaths from...
...provides apersonal connection to history. The events of the past 200 years are not described as affecting faceless numbers of peasants and aristocrats but as affecting individuals with names and, occasionally, faces. At the same time, however, the book does not lose sight of the larger issues, allowing the import of the book to be more general than the isolated story of one family's experiences...
...steer the boat are provided with subtitles--a conspicuous effort to lend a sense of foreignness to the Spaniards and a universality to the endeavors of the Africans. The fact remains, though, that the audience does not understand what the Africans say, so while the Spanish dialogue has some import, that of the Africans' is relegated to incomprehensibility. Later on, inconsistent application of subtitles makes further unclear who is meant to be foreign...
...this movie, scorewriter John Williams studied African traditional music and integrated it with the Western musical idiom he usually works in. The movie teases us with this traditional music, but uses it only to underscore savagery and apparent backwardness; any scene of real emotional charge or import to the plot is backed up with a typical Western-style orchestra and chorus. At one point, the Africans seem to have converted to Christianity, as they apparently hold aloft and make supplications to a copy of the Bible, a turn of events more than a little disturbing and perverse...
...beef jerky. Link's distributors in Russia take care to place the tubes on store racks next to potato chips and small cakes so that shoppers will know they are snack food. Link products sell for 10% to 15% more than competing snacks in foreign stores--partly because of import duties, but also because foreign snackers are willing to pay extra for what they imagine to be a taste of the American Wild West...