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...smaller developing countries that depend heavily upon textile manufacturing for jobs, the end of quotas could be a dire economic blow. In 2002, for example, quotas on some items, including gloves and negligees, were lifted by the U.S. By 2003, Chinese exports of those goods leaped nearly 200% from their 2001 levels, while Sri Lanka's exports dropped more than 50% and Bangladesh's fell 46%. If history repeats itself, millions of people could be thrown out of work in some of the world's poorest and most politically volatile countries?and in the richest as well...
...Similar concerns are rife in Sri Lanka, where textiles and garments make up half of the country's exports, and the industry supports as many as 1 million workers. In Nepal, where more than 300,000 workers depend directly or indirectly on the garment sector for their livelihood, extending the quota system "is a matter of life or death," says Prashant Pokhrel, a Nepali exporter. Experts in Bangladesh fear that anywhere from $1.25 billion to $2.5 billion of that country's annual exports could be lost, with the shock waves rippling through the nation's banking sector and the entire...
...constant problem." Bringing The Producers to London also raises the question of whether hit musicals can survive the trip across the Atlantic. "Since Cats and Phantom of the Opera, everyone expects a successful musical to replicate itself around the world," says Meehan. "But those shows don't depend on the star like we do. Nobody knows who's playing the Phantom in New York, but potential audiences care who's playing Max." Case in point: the day the London theater announced that Lane was replacing Dreyfuss, the box office doubled its ticket sales. But after Lane leaves? The Producers' London...
...Gross added that the fate of such an online registration system will depend on what the curricular review decides about course-selection advising...
...advocated engagement with the regime in Tehran, the neoconservative hawks who championed the Iraq war have long advocated an aggressive pursuit of regime change in Iran. That goal may, ironically, have been stymied rather than advanced by the situation in Iraq, where U.S. hopes for a positive outcome now depend partly on cooperation from Tehran, which certainly has more influence than the U.S. and its allies do over the major political forces among Iraq's Shiite majority. Still, the administration's internal debate persists, its policy currently locked into a holding pattern somewhere between the stools of regime-change...