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Policymakers and central bankers are scrambling to raise interest rates and tighten credit to get inflation under control. But these same measures suppress the investment and consumption that generates growth, threatening to put the brakes on Asia's unusually fast and relatively untroubled expansion. Glenn Maguire, chief Asia-Pacific economist...
Publicly, AAR's list of grievances is long. It claims, among other things, that TNK-BP operates too much like a BP subsidiary, resisting expansion beyond Russia to avoid stepping on the British firm's toes. Instead, the Russians want an independent CEO, and a culling of BP staff seconded...
The missile-bound game of nuclear tic-tac-toe continued across the Middle East and Europe Wednesday as Russia made a provocative response to an expansion of the U.S. missile shield in Europe, and Iran followed with a provocation of its own. After the U.S. and Czech Republic signed an...
But these international openings are not without their challenges, Harvard officials say, and in many cases local regulations have complicated expansion efforts as with study abroad in India or executive education in China.
Defense Department officials were exasperated and frustrated as, once again, the Russian government denounced the expansion of the fledgling U.S. missile shield that U.S. officials maintain is designed only to protect parts of Europe as well as the United States. "No one's name [in the Russian government] is attached...