The "Mass Destruction" moniker went to a particularly long, somewhat costly date imported from Iraq.
He and the 8,000 other Japanese patients who use similar defibrillators rely instead on out-of-date imported technology, in this case from Medtronic in the U.S. The good news for Western medical-device makers is that they dominate the market for several implants (pacemakers, compact defibrillators, artificial joints, stents) in Japan, the world's second-biggest health care spender.
We drive east through endless plantations of date-oil palms, originally imported from East Africa by British colonists as decoration, the native palms not tall or broad enough for their liking.
Since the aboriginal peoples of this region were not easily collected and controlled, slaves were imported from an early date.
Site and Date of Introduction: In 1875 seeds imported from Russia were planted at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts.
Site and Date of Introduction: Hydrilla was first imported from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1947 by an aquatic plant dealer in St .Louis, Missouri for use as an aquatic ornamental.
For Corona beer, which is imported from Mexico, the date has become the cornerstone of the brand's marketing plan, bringing big returns for the two-week promotional window, selling more than an estimated 100 million bottles.
More important losses from a nutritional standpoint were apples and dairy products, such as butter and cheese, which had been imported from New England; citrus fruits, dates, pineapples, and vegetables, which had been imported from Bermuda and the Caribbean Islands became scarce, as did salt … which had been mainly imported from abroad before the war".
The beliefs of the various Dayak tribes, he says, descend from the Kutai kingdom, an eastern Borneo state dating from the fourth century whose religion was imported from India.
