That has involved bigger imports of oil, gas and coal, and so more foreign entanglements.
Two of the bigger imports to Brazilian football made promising starts over the weekend.
(Indeed, if you embrace the goal of "energy security", bigger imports of Brazilian ethanol might help, by reducing America's demand for oil from more hostile lands).The Democrats' leaders might calculate that it is worth dressing up an energy bill with patriotic talk and weighing it down with subsidies in order to buy political support for more contentious measures.
"It's coincidental," Mr. Bartozzi said, "but it certainly takes on much bigger import now".
Given Chinese demand for commodities and a falling real exchange rate in the developed world, the result is that the west will face a bigger import bill in the form of higher raw materials prices.
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"That's one of our big imports, is a good period drama," said Oyelowo, who was born in Oxford, England to Nigerian parents.
She works for Voice and Script International in London, who subtitle some of the biggest imports: Spiral, Borgen, The Bridge, Witnesses and The Returned.
Most of the big imports in the US since the early 1990s, from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (still the No 1 foreign-language film) to The Orphanage to The Lives of Others ticked most of those boxes.
"It's like the port and the city have finally turned full circle – a far cry from the late 1970s, when massive hauls of cocaine and marijuana, ingeniously hidden in ships' cargoes, seemed to be our biggest imports".
