Imports West

Are we approaching the endgame on Iran?(The Week)(Brief article)
National Review; 12/21/2009; 699 words; ...problem, many proposals target the gasoline imports on which Iran depends--but the regime...testing of an Iranian atomic bomb while the West is still in "Let's talk" mode; if...conclusion--and, by extension, to force the West's leaders to confront hard realities...

Umpqua Bank Grows International Banking Division.
Investment Weekly News; 12/19/2009; 1194 words; ...as senior vice president of foreign exchange for Bank of the West, where she managed the bank's foreign exchange team and was...products and services, including: commercial letters of credit (import and export), online letter of credit issuance, standby letters...

Yegor Gaidar, pioneer of Russian economy
International Herald Tribune; 12/17/2009; 898 words; ...recalled those of the Great Depression in the West and wound up thwarting the expectations...argued that the Soviet government turned to West European bank lending in the mid- 1980s...the Soviet government by allowing food imports. This balance-of-payments shock also...

Sports digest
The Irish Times; 12/17/2009; 981 words; ...commanding position after day one of the third Test against the West Indies at the Waca, with Mike Hussey poised to become the first...which activates metabolism in body tissue); conspiracy to import an unapproved drug; conspiracy to export a drug; and smuggling...

Hints of change as old friends get back together ; Syria takes new direction as it reconnects with a more modern Turkey
International Herald Tribune; 12/16/2009; 1203 words; ...its political position. The West's isolation of Syria has given...fostering renewed hopes in the West for a peace deal. But the widespread...pressures from Iran and the West while strengthening its position...will start to feel swamped by imports from Turkey's more powerful...