This historical debate has acquired new urgency now that "post-Fascists" (as yesterday's neo-Fascists call themselves today) are an important part of Italy's center-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi.

Their relationship, teasingly undefined, acquires sudden urgency when Malú's beloved grandmother dies, and her divorced mother decides to marry a foreigner and leave Havana.

Given the regional tension since the attack on the United States, this chore has acquired new urgency.

While the community's trade negotiations with the East Europeans have acquired urgency in light of the recent upheavals there, they began before the most dramatic political changes.

And for the Administration, an effort to reduce subsidies has acquired new urgency in recent weeks.

Schools Chancellor Richard Green's campaign to win authority from Albany to reassign ineffective principals has acquired new urgency.

There is no complete catalogue either of Anderson's graphic work nor of his writing, and the compilation of such a volume acquires special urgency after Katrina.

While family breakdown has vexed policy makers for three decades, the issue has acquired new urgency in an age of time-limited welfare.

But the issue has acquired only greater urgency since then.

Issues of security have acquired fresh urgency in the light of the most recent terrorist attacks.