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...side with the U.S. in a recent United Nations vote condemning the American trade embargo, does business with Cuba: Israeli firms are second only to Mexican companies in textile investments. These days, the palm-lined patio at the elegant La Ferminia restaurant in suburban Flores is jammed with foreign businessmen power-lunching with government ministers and discreetly whispering into their cellular phones...
...sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon be possible. Drawn by the promise of pent-up demand and the conviction that, in the words of a confidential British report to investors, the reform process is ``cohesive, systematic and unstoppable,'' Canadian, Mexican and European businessmen are taking the gamble...
First, there is cultural class warfare. Whether accurately or otherwise, the Republicans have portrayed the Democrats as the party of a cultural elite-ivory-tower intellectuals and inside-the-Beltway bureaucrats totally alienated from the concerns of ordinary Americans. The redirection of populist resentment from top-hatted Wall Street businessmen to Chardonnay-sipping Washington pointy-heads has been nothing short of brilliant...
Preliminary damage estimates ranged from $35 billion to $100 billion or more. Brokers, bankers and businessmen around the world read such estimates as a possible forecast of tough times ahead. But the Japanese economy is so big and resilient that while it might stagger, it could absorb the quake's blow. Trade with the U.S. and other major partners would be slowed, but delays in production could be made up later. As a longer range assessment took hold, the Nikkei leveled off and closed down 3.8% from the week's start...
...persecution and chaos of the Cultural Revolution to set the country on the path toward reform cannot manage even ( this modest circumambulation: he can no longer walk or stand unaided. Yet in a way the methodical tally continues, if only in the anxious timekeeping of millions of politicians, businessmen and ordinary Chinese...