African slaves were imported to work in first coffee and then sugar plantations; with the abolition of slavery in 1848, indentured labourers from mainland Southeast Asia, India, and Eastern Africa were brought in.
In some areas of South Carolina and Georgia the African Americans who had been imported to work the rice and cotton plantations developed a contact language called Gullah, or Geechee, that made use of many structural and lexical features of their native languages.
In addition, between 1864 and 1939 some 60,000 indentured labourers were imported to construct public works and to work on plantations, ships, wharves, and mines and in commerce and domestic service.
Yet an eerie continuity became visible in the postwar years, as German scientists were imported to America and began working for their former enemies; the resulting technologies of mass destruction exceeded Hitler's darkest imaginings.
Crews of assistants are imported to the site of the work or formed there; over the years, these have included several young artists, like Adrian Piper and Jeanne Dunning, who went on to build their own careers.
The processed NMR spectral data (δH 0.25 10) were imported to MATLAB (R2012a, 7.14.0.739, MathWorks) and digitised into 20 k data points with a resolution of 0.0005 p.p.m. using a MATLAB script developed within the Section of Computational and Systems Medicine.
"I looked for products that were being imported and decided to re-shore that work into the UK to save on the transport costs," says Mike Perry, director of Calpac LTD, a corrugated and laminated packaging specialist firm.
Previously, the first-sale doctrine protected copyright-holders from their works being imported and resold without their permission.
No two places are alike, and policies cannot simply be imported wholesale; what worked in Norway may not help in Nigeria.
