Cultural products, goods and services have importance and meaning that go beyond their commercial value.
Yet as stock markets have dwindled in economic importance, they have grown in political and social importance.
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He said that if items were found to have some importance they would be bought by museums at market value from the finders.
Likewise, the next generation patient portals will have central importance in any outcomes-based model particularly with chronic disease that makes up 75% of healthcare spend.
Their national governments have placed importance on the development of a quality education system but geographical difficulties, migration to main centres, limited resources and heavy dependency on external aid for quality improvement in education make the task challenging.
The ubiquity of the sandwich worldwide has proven to have economic importance as well, as The Economist magazine has run its Big Mac Index since 1986, which compares the price of the Big Mac across countries to value currency.
"The contamination of mines is more high and so we have to check accurately all the area around houses, around well, around toilet, around big tree - around all that area that can have some importance during a fighting scenario, " he says.
Samuel Walker, a criminal-justice professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska who testified for the plaintiffs, said in a later interview with The Wall Street Journal that the sheer size and influence of the NYPD means that Judge Scheindlin's rulings would have national importance.
For years, Vermont officials have highlighted the importance of the state's relationship with Quebec, and all the points in the document have been issues of interest to the state and the province for years.
First, as back-office jobs (susceptible to automation) have declined in importance, front-office jobs (which require certain bundles of skills, especially social skills) have increased.
We have also realised the importance of supporting the parents and have therefore set up support networks to engage meeting this need.
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The UN could even play the role of peacekeeper in parts of the globe that have no real strategic importance, such as it could have done--and murderously did not--in ethnically divided Rwanda in the mid-1990s.
In the last five years, people have realized the importance of creativity and quality in China.
Struggling to acquire customers, the Internet companies have discovered the importance of the real world.
The subsequent lows were located in areas that have had previous importance this year.
The good news is that more insurers have realised the importance of disciplined underwriting.
Poorer Americans are hit disproportionately by payroll taxes, which are regressive and have grown in importance.
Social media campaigns have helped destigmatize contraception and have conveyed the importance of protecting oneself, she says.
Many individuals of lesser importance have been persuaded to give themselves up and some have been arrested.
What it represents to the public, I think to a certain extent, might have a greater importance.
"If we had had only Japanese investors, we may never have realized the importance of shareholders, " Ariga says.
But during the past 12 months, companies and regional governments have realised the importance of some broader considerations.
Events in Greece over the past 24 hours have underscored the importance of implementing the plan, fully and as quickly as possible.
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No one could have missed the importance to Mr. Obama's campaign of the class-war themes that reverberated continually during the Democratic convention speeches.
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Of even greater importance have been Western radio broadcasts, particularly those beamed to the peoples of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China.
Some programmers have realized their importance and demanded higher pay.
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While Venezuelan imports have decreased in importance in recent years, falling to 8% of imports in 2011, it remains the fourth-biggest supplier to the U.S. market.
Because industrial quotas have fallen with stocks, the independents have jointly gained importance: their share of the catch rose from 22% in 2000 to 52% in 2010.
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And long-term rights deals between the TV networks and their cable and satellite distributors have ensured the importance of TV, even as Web video is on the rise.
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