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...China, the greatest fear is of a destabilized North Korea, perhaps leading to what the Bush Administration calls "regime change." A breakdown in the North's government could send a flood of millions of starving North Koreans into China, a situation that can be avoided if Kim remains in control. China also dreads a scenario whereby North and South Korea become unified. That could bring a staunch American ally, or even American troops, straight to China's border?exactly what propelled China to war 52 years ago. With that in mind, "China will never support a regime change in North...
...number of other E.U. countries have been trying to garner support for harmonization of corporate taxes. With a level tax, the theory goes, companies will have no incentive to move. But the lower-tax U.K opposes the idea. If the trickle of companies leaving Germany does become a flood, that could prove disastrous to Schröder's political future. The government reported last week that unemployment had crossed the psychologically important 4 million barrier and stands at 9.7% of the workforce. The country's leading banks cut their growth forecast to .3% for 2002 and only 1% next year...
...council’s old voting system, called “ucvote,” was dismantled after a flood of the Holworthy Hall basement destroyed the computer, Fernandez said...
...shrieking from the room and the flood of tears which washed over the bathroom floor was sopped up only by the revenge which I planned for Macy, the bitch who stole my parade...
...wonderful story," Updike says. "That this terribly handicapped man handicapped by his alcoholism, limited in his intelligence, in his skillswent into the countryside, and this flood of light somehow entered his work." With darkness by its side, as Updike well understands. He takes art seriously. For more than 20 years he has been producing a good-size body of art criticism, reviews full of nuance and sharp eyesight. Once an aspiring cartoonist, he majored in English at Harvard but studied afterward at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford. His first wife was a painter...