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...dollar has been firm, despite the massive trade deficit which, in theory at least, is eventually supposed to drive the greenback's value down. Moreover, at a moment when the U.S. needs China's help in the U.N. Security Council to bring Iran's nuclear program to heel, U.S. President George W. Bush is plainly eager to finesse the trade issue as best he can. Asked a leading question at a press conference about trade with China earlier this month, Bush not only didn't take the bait, but offered a crisply cogent description of the economic reality Hu faces...
...selling the brand abroad has been keeping it hot at home. Whether in Detroit or Taipei, the company relies on grass-roots marketing. To explain how to "heel" skate on one rear wheel, the company cherry-picks a handful of cool kids, "like school athletes," in selected schools to join Team Heelys. These paid performers demo the shoes at malls, concerts and sporting events, and they also chat up Team Heelys wannabes on the Heelys website, generating cred and buzz...
...think everybody’s acutely aware that [starting slow has] been an Achilles heel of ours recently,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “It certainly was more dramatic last night than any night this season...
...whoever wrote it had no intention of provoking"--but "it will prove those people right who feel that there is more to the Judas story than is obvious from the texts of the canonical Gospels." Its very title suggests a positive or even heroic role for the Scriptures' emblematic heel...
...that's has been Cheney's Achilles' heel as veep-he doesn't hear the politics of things anymore. He didn't hear them in the first term much when he held secret meetings with energy lobbyists, refused to detail the sessions and then fought the matter through the courts as White House aides cringed. He didn't hear them on torture and ran way past the fence line last year in trying to prevent the enactment of John McCain's reasonable insistence that Army interrogators stick to the rulebook. And I'm betting he didn't hear them last...