Between 1990 and 2005, the increase in the amount of food imported was relatively greater than the increase in production, indicating that imports became a more important source of foods consumed in the region (Table 1).
The high seas are of great economic importance to everyone fish is a more important source of protein than beef and getting more so.
These results are consistent with an analysis of data from France, which suggested that UK bovine imports were likely to have been a more important source of infection than indigenous BSE (6 ).
"I think that's going to be a far more important source of their growth".
Declining government grants mean licensing has become a more important source of revenue for nonprofit groups.
A more important source of weakness in the thin rupee market is trade.
But surely China's skilled, low-wage labor force is a far more important source of its low costs.
There's an even more important source of pent-up demand, though: all the young adult Americans who have spent the past few years living with their parents.
As Facebook becomes an ever more important source of traffic to other Web sites, the two companies' rivalry is certain to sharpen.
"We have a more important source of demand now than we did then, and it's still challenging to qualify for a home loan," Mr. Witten said.
The more important source of enlarged federal deficits is increased spending on transfers, like food stamps and unemployment insurance, and in-kind subsidies for the poor, like Medicaid.
