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Should the Chinese currency--now pegged to the U.S. dollar--appreciate against the dollar? China is under growing pressure from the U.S. to adjust the rate or let it float. The argument, made vociferously by the White House, is that the current exchange rate artificially cheapens China's exports, to the detriment of American jobs and the U.S. trade deficit. The trade gap with China is more than $100 billion. Naim called the current rate of $1 to 8.3 yuan "the world's most dangerous number." At issue, he said, is whether it will change in an orderly manner...
...coach Kathy Delaney-Smith adds. “[Emma] had to learn how to jump when she came here, she had to learn how to move.”The transition to college basketball was a difficult one for Moretzsohn, who also had to learn to adjust to the increased level of physical play at the collegiate level.“You can only imagine what is done to her body on the court,” Delaney-Smith says with a grimace. “It’s a physical game anyway inside, but it?...
...seasoned doc gets good at sizing up what kind of patient he's got and how to adjust his communicative style accordingly. Some patients are non-compliant Bozos who won't read anything longer than a headline. They don't want to know what's wrong with them, they don't know what medicines they're taking, they don't even seem to care what kind of operation you're planning to do on them. "Just get me better, doc," is all they...
...even if they really did need it, our concessions to farmers are already excessive. We already spend hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary farm subsidies to prop up American agriculture. Must we conform our schedules to farmers’ whims as well? Farmers should have to adjust their alarm clocks, not everyone else...
...Berkshire School in western Massachusetts where she sharpened her skills for two years in the competitive New England Prep School league. Now settling into her first year at Harvard, Ryabkina hopes to use her speed and knack for finding the back of the net to help the Crimson while adjusting to a more team-oriented style of play.“At this level, right now, I understand why you have to play the systems,” she says. “The level of hockey is so high, you can’t do anything by yourself...