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Then came the really hard part: negotiating the terms of the joint venture. For a year, Phil Murtaugh, a GM executive vice president, and Hu Maoyuan, his counterpart at Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., negotiated the details of supplier agreements, manufacturing and training protocols and all the other minutiae of setting up a car plant. They talked--and shouted--16 hours a day, seven days a week in a small office on Shanghai's Huashan Street. "I would say, 'I can't live with that, Mr. Hu. I'll get killed,' and he would say, 'My neck is under the blade...
...case, next week's vote has staggering implications. Last November, after 13 years of negotiations, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and her Chinese counterpart, Shi Guangsheng, signed a landmark agreement that paves the way for China's entry into the World Trade Organization. China agreed to open its markets to a vast basket of U.S. goods and services, dramatically lowering tariffs on almost everything. In return, the U.S. agreed to grant China the same permanent normal trade status every other major economic power enjoys. If Congress does not approve the China trade bill, the U.S. will be the only major...
...face of these counterclockwise movements, is that we can be bound by what unites us, which we have ever more occasion to see; that the stirring visions of Thomas Paine or Martin Luther King Jr. have more resonance than ever, now that an American can meet a Chinese counterpart--in Shanghai or San Francisco (or many places in between)--and see how much they have in common. What Emerson called the Over-soul reminds us that we are joined not only by our habits and our urges and our fears but also by our dreams and that best part...
Meyers does not know whether he will appear on "Greed" or its higher-stakes counterpart, "Super Greed...
...Problem was, they went through their sizable $120 million stake like a New Mexico clearing blaze. "We wanted everything to be perfect," Swedish cofounder Ernst Malmsten told The Financial Times of the company's marketing- and technology-heavy spending habits. "My mistake has been not to have a counterpart who was a strong financial controller...