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...Remind the rest of the world it's a temporary plan. Send U.S. trade rep Robert Zoellick door-to-door to Europe, Russia, China and the Pacific Rim, pointing up the three-year term of the program, the review planned for the 18-month mark - and the fact that the tariffs decline each year over the life of the plan. Tell the EU to go ahead and take their beef to the WTO if they want - even the smallest cases take a year and enforcing them takes two - and to be patient...
...Consider Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, an independent Diet member elected in 2000 on a reformist platform. Instead of blasting his name from a noisy sound truck, he had shown a populist touch by riding a bicycle door-to-door soliciting votes. Now a $628 million, 68-km highway is on the drawing board, slated to slice through his home district, creating hundreds of jobs and funneling millions of dollars into rural Hyogo prefecture. It's one of thousands of wasteful highway projects?known as roads to nowhere?that are gradually transforming Japan into a giant parking lot, causing the national...
Bonner, however, said she has still been going door-to-door the past two nights soliciting votes...
...forces haven?t trained with them, aren?t used to communicating with them on the battlefield. The Marines will probably end up doing what it makes sense for them to do - provide technical support, protect the airfield, maybe cut off an escape route if it?s needed. But going door-to-door in Kandahar when the Taliban says it?ll fight to the death...
Neil Franklin, 37, a former door-to-door salesman, knew nothing about the wireless world a decade ago, but he did foresee the changing dynamics of the workplace. In 1994 he founded Dataworkforce in his suburban London flat to supply skilled temps for the global cell-phone market. Today Dataworkforce has more than 300 telecom contractors employed in 54 countries by clients such as Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, AT&T, British Telecom and China Unicom. Assignments can last from two days to four years. "I always thought the industry would become dependent upon a virtual bank of knowledge, rather...