Yet as stock markets have dwindled in economic importance, they have grown in political and social importance.
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.
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.
This latest scheme is, perhaps, an admission that Lazard's business has suffered as cross-border deals have grown in importance, and the bank has lagged in its ability to match this with cross-border advice.
Poorer Americans are hit disproportionately by payroll taxes, which are regressive and have grown in importance.
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.
Tests have taken on increasing importance in U.S. education since the federal No Child Left Behind became law in 2002.
While I know the independent shops have been growing in importance for many years now, the huge global networks had always dominated the Super Bowl.
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As advanced economies struggle to come out of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, emerging economies have gained share and importance in global economic affairs.
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The reason Jerry Sandusky was able to perpetrate his evil is because at Penn State (as at hundreds of other Division I schools across America) sports have exceeded academics in importance.
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In the last five years, people have realized the importance of creativity and quality in China.
Indeed, almost 140 genes implicated in human diseases such as hereditary deafness have recognisable relatives in Arabidopsis where their importance is, as yet, unknown.
Woman with shopping bags isolated against white backgroundThe reason for why some people put off buying or that some people overspend is that they have placed too much emotional importance in the object.
His own experience with faith-based organizations when he was a young man demonstrated to him the importance that they have in our public life, and he believed very clearly that we could extend this important health care coverage to all women, no matter where they work, and do it in a way that still found that balance that preserved religious liberty.
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 past politicians mostly left patent policy to specialists, since it seemed arcane and technical, but as intellectual property has grown in importance the flaws in Europe's patent system have become more glaring.
Riley believes that school systems can be improved -- "but you have to really believe in the importance of education, be willing to hurt for it, " he says.
The subsequent lows were located in areas that have had previous importance this year.
Attentiveness to fluctuations and alterations in the natural milieu is an integral part of their ways of life, and remains of crucial cultural importance even in areas where lifestyles have been modified by colonialism and globalization.
Mr. DAVID BOYD (Spokesman, for BLM, Northwest Colorado): The companies that we've been working with in northwestern Colorado are acutely aware of the importance of wildlife to the people of Colorado and have been fairly cooperative, in that sense.
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.
Britain's top finance officials in recent months have played down the importance of the country's top-notch credit rating.
They have finally emphasized the importance of having additional training sessions in order to guarantee the success of the lessons.
Rather than seek such authority, senior policemen involved in the investigation have singled out the importance of electronic surveillance and the need for a country-wide counter-terrorism squad.
Have students prioritize these needs in order of their importance.
And if you have any doubt about the importance of this federal investment in research and development, I would suggest that you talk to the cutting-edge businesses in your own states.
While those have apparent financial bearings, their importance extends beyond finance in that they set firms operating internationally apart from domestically-focused local firms and could provide valuable advantage relative to them.
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Self-importance, however, Salahi seemed to have in abundance.
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