It is propped up not by the strength of America's exports, but by vast imports of capital.
It was cheeky at best and particularly unworthy when you consider the vast political import of his election.
But it took a million dollars of Drew's money that he got from Time & Life to develop that kind of equipment, that would make it possible... Drew worked on a grand historical scale, deploying the big resources of big companies to film matters of vast political import.
This murder is of vast symbolic import: the person whom Jane kills is the sisters' housekeeper, Elvira (Maidie Norman, an actress who, in real life, was her own advocate and, at times, her own scriptwriter on "Baby Jane," but who doesn't appear in "Feud" at all) — the movie's only main black character.
EU-Russia trade volumes, including vast gas imports and engineering exports, are 15 times the level of US-Russia trade.
China's steel companies, for instance, import vast quantities of iron ore; but they are concerned only to get the cheapest freight rates patriotism go hang.
At the moment, animal feed producers import vast quantities of soya from countries in South America, grown on land that could otherwise be used to feed people living there.
Instead they have assumed that the state will not deliver enough and are prepared to import vast amounts of coal to fire their plants, either by acquiring it from wholesalers or by buying foreign coal mines.
Yet more controversially, as head of the church's external relations department (the Orthodox foreign office and in Soviet times an arm of foreign and security policy), Kirill has enabled the church to benefit from government tax-breaks to import vast amounts of tobacco and alcohol.
