It has an urgent need of imported uranium to cope with a worsening energy shortfall.
For years, U.S. high-tech companies have complained that technically trained workers are in such short supply that they need to import tens of thousands of foreign scientists and engineers to keep labs running and production lines humming.
That would eliminate most of the moving parts, most of the weight, and all of the need for imported oil to run our railroads.
The purpose of this green infrastructure is to mitigate the city's need to import 85percentt of its usable water -- and to save the city money.
Even though China has been selling off its stockpile, C. Czarnikow, a firm of traders, says it may need to import 1.5m tonnes of sugar this year twice as much as in 2000.
Yet despite accounts of dot-com entrepreneurs' becoming millionaires, trends in computer technology pay do not confirm a need to import legions of programmers.
By the time of the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to A.D. 220), Chinese emperors realized the need to import horses of superior stock to beat back the barbarians' ever more daring raids.
He maintained the Europe i no longer economically viable; to survive, it must develop its colonies in Africa, the last of Old World Herzland, for Africa rich raw materials which would relieve Europe of the need to import them from Americ bridge the dollar gap, free Europe from America's charity, and found a third economic bloc, which he called the Auro-African trade group.
As recently as a decade ago, most experts predicted that the country had only 25 years of gas reserves, and that it would need to import at least half of its needs in the future.
The report, released last November, estimated the North would still need to import 340,000 tons of cereals.
Because leisure businesses are so labour-intensive, however, Singapore will need to import large numbers of foreign workers as it expands its tourism trade.
