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Failure to renew China's MFN status could provoke an all-out trade war between China and the U.S. The Chinese government could impose high tariffs on American products and effectively threaten many of the 200,000 U.S. jobs that depend on the $9 billion in goods and services that the U.S. exports to China. Giant companies like Boeing and AT&T would quickly be overtaken by their Japanese and European competitors...
Since the play limits itself to the indirect interaction through letters, the characters cannot depend on actions or gestures to help convey the varying depth and quality of their feelings. Both Coleman and Levitt give convincing performances and maximize the impact of each line of the script through careful attention to their tone and inflections in speech. Coleman manages to portray a seven-year-old princess, promiscuous teenager, and troubled, jaded socialite all in succession. Occassionally, she borders on emotional excess; for example, the repeated emphasis on her despicable stepfather's name seems overdone and jarring. But overall, her charged...
...chances depend on who plays," said Arnold. "But if we come out like we did against Princeton and West Virginia, we'll do well...
Despite Klein's fame, virtually the only place to read about him has been in fawning profiles commissioned by the glossy magazines that depend on him for ads. As a rich, handsome man he is a big target, though, and the arrival of a tell-all expose like Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein, by Steven Gaines and Sharon Churcher (Birch Lane Press; $22.50), was almost inevitable. The authors do not fawn -- they revel in describing the people Klein copied, the deals he made, the collaborators he turned against. Above all, they dwell on his heavy drug...
China and Hong Kong depend on each other for one-third of their trade, so talk of American withdrawal of most favored nation status, not the impending Chinese take-over, is what jars the nerves of investors in Hong Kong, said Fong...