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...European Union countered with an offer to cut import tariffs on agricultural products an average of 46%, though some goods would have smaller cuts. The offer is "Europe's bottom line," says the E.U.'s Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, although France--whose farmers retain near mythic political clout--still may veto any agreement it doesn't like. Says Mike Johanns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture: "It does appear to me that we will not make as much progress in Hong Kong as we had hoped...
...European Union countered with an offer to cut import tariffs on agricultural products an average of 46%, though some goods would have smaller cuts. The offer is "Europe's bottom line," says the E.U.'s Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, although France?whose farmers retain near mythic political clout?still may veto any agreement it doesn't like. Says Mike Johanns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture: "It does appear to me that we will not make as much progress in Hong Kong as we had hoped...
...University appealed to the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to allow its trucks to travel along a 1,800-yard path before turning onto Cowperthwaite. But the Commonwealth ultimately denied that request. City Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio said he had expected that Harvard’s political clout would have prevailed on the DCR to obtain an exception. “The real disappointment was an assumption that...Harvard’s contacts at the state level” would have been enough to allow trucks on Memorial Drive, Galluccio said after the City Council meeting last night...
...need to try to close it," Wolfensohn had urged Rice. "If you're the Secretary of State of the United States, I would have to say there's a little more clout associated with that. And therefore, to push it over the edge one needs not envoys but Secretaries of State...
...urged them to work on turnout for the December elections, explaining that in politics, the last 10 or 15 percent is the hardest to get. The Sunnis had many more eligible voters than that, she said, so if they turned them out in force, they could wield considerable clout as the new government is being formed...