Sorry, TV just makes me feel ill. Except the good stuff that gets imported, with great scripts, great lighting, great camera angles, innovative effects, and fabulous editing. And the Simpsons. What has happened to us?
- Brian MayOne thing the government could do would be to increase the amount of butter that could be imported without tariff, and that would provide ice cream producers and other users some additional supplies of butter,
- Keith Collins(Much of that imported oil leaves the country soon after it arrives.) The economy is growing at just over 5%, and yet oil consumption -- at a time when prices were rising -- rose 9% over the past year, ... My guess is that almost all the increase in consumption can be traced back to growth in smuggling.
- Michael ChambersWhy are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
- Ahmad FawziFirst, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
- Alan PhillipsFrom imported professionals it should have been a short step to hiring men of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, and it was.
- Allan GurganusThe price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers` purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.
- Amanda BirdOur oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption.
- Andrea OkomskiJapan has always imported high-level opera productions from Italy, Vienna or Paris and I thought it`s about time we create one here,
- Barbara Christian