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...noted that many people would argue that it is immoral to buy or import goods from people being paid less than a certain amount of money...
...Though refugees do eventually make it out of the camps, Australia's policies are nonetheless shameful?and have plenty of historical precedent. The country's refusal to accept refugees from Nazi Germany was notorious in the 1930s. ("We have no racial problems in Australia and no desire to import any," a government spokesman snapped at the time.) Likewise the White Australia immigration policy, which restricted immigration from countries such as India and China until 1973, was a gross insult to the generations of Asian pioneers (principally Chinese) who had helped develop Australia's farming, mining and mercantile sectors...
...INDICATORS Opening Time The European Union signed a bilateral trade agreement with Saudi Arabia, advancing the kingdom's bid for membership in the World Trade Organization. The deal cuts Saudi import tariffs on E.U. industrial and agricultural products, and throws open lucrative service sectors to the Saudis' main trading partner...
...lite followed the leader. The poor saw the money that top players were making. And bureaucrats and businessmen found a way to make a killing. In 1992, after Tarpishchev, Yeltsin's coach and longtime confidant, founded the National Sports Foundation (nsf), Yeltsin gave it the right to import untaxed alcohol and tobacco. In the next four years, some $9 billion in revenues was allegedly diverted from the nsf. The ensuing scandal helped drive from power the Kremlin faction Tarpischev belonged to, though he has denied wrongdoing and no one has ever been charged. Moreover, tennis also makes a nice place...
...year-old designer knows it may not last beyond one season. Japanese fashion's ephemeral nature will force him to come up with something new?yet again. Luckily, Mihara says his consumers seem ever willing to experiment, an easy assimilation that mirrors his homeland's historic ability to import technology and imbue it with a uniquely Japanese aesthetic. "Every day, we reinvent ourselves," says Mihara. "It's exciting to think about what we may become tomorrow...