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...priority had been fighting inflation. Now policymakers are easing off the brakes and hitting the gas again in an effort to stimulate growth. The central bank lowered its benchmark interest rate twice in the past 45 days, the first cuts since 2002. In mid-October, the State Council announced plans to increase infrastructure spending, to offer tax rebates for exporters and to boost government-controlled prices for agricultural products. Beijing is also widely expected to introduce measures to resuscitate the faltering property market, in an attempt to prevent a U.S.-style crash in home prices. The government announced...
...Mark L. Clifford is executive director of the Asia Business Council and co-author of Meltdown: Asia's Boom, Bust, and Beyond
...piece speech on foreign policy in Chicago in April 2007, for example, Barack Obama identified no less than five ways in which the U.S. should lead the world. But John McCain made the point with greatest clarity in his speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in March...
...multilateral institutions which spread a sense of collective political, military and economic security around much of the world. The Bush Administration, by contrast, has not been good at multilateralism or institution-building. Let's take some examples. It invaded Iraq without formal support from a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force. While the U.S. has welcomed a host of post-communist nations into NATO, it has been unable to rally its allies, new or old, around a clear vision of what NATO's role is or what its future might be. And though, in the wake...
...state of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender relations in the city and to advocate for further progress at a town hall meeting last night. Community members gathered at the Cambridge City Hall to provide recommendations to a GLBT Commission that was formed in February 2004 by the Cambridge City Council. The 15-member committee is responsible for monitoring the city’s policies and practices with regard to sexual orientation and gender identity. A third of the meeting was devoted to group discussions. Participants were asked to respond to questions about how Cambridge could further integrate GLBT awareness into...