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...that often occurs in overheated markets. Beijing officials, worried there could be another Chinese market meltdown like one in 2001 that soured the public on stocks for years, are sounding the alarm. On Dec. 30, Cheng Siwei, a vice chairman of the National People's Congress, cautioned investors against "blind optimism" in the country's relatively underdeveloped capital markets. Last week, China Central Television, the government TV network, broadcast a show warning citizens not to use their homes as collateral for loans to buy stock. Authorities are doing more than jawbone-bank lending for stock purchases was barred last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taming China's Dragon Market | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...name the world over. The U.S. tried to outlaw the habit with its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which makes it unlawful for any American firm to make a corrupt payment to a foreign official. But that was long the exception; many other rich countries simply turned a blind eye. In Germany and Luxembourg , bribes used to be tax deductible. In many countries, and for many firms, bribes were just the way things were done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Endless Cycle Of Corruption | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...Hubble's Blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next: Feb. 12, 2007 | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...predestination as either a blind force. We have the assurance that "God chose us before we chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Calvinist Faces Death | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...Having breast cancer, she wrote in a TIME column on Feb, 18, 2002, "is massive amounts of no fun. First, they multilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Molly Ivins, 1944-2007 | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

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