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Slutskaya, of course, wasn't aware of the mathematical import of her Tosca program. A talented jumper, she was forced by nerves to scale back a planned triple-triple combination in the first minute of her program, and she fought valiantly to hold the landing on her double axel. Her performance was good enough for silver...
...also likely that import restraints would spark a wider trade war. U.S. imports of key steel products, such as hot-rolled sheet, actually declined from the end of 1998 through 2001, and under World Trade Organization rules, America's trading partners may be authorized to retaliate immediately if the U.S. imposes hefty tariffs or quotas. In a speech in London in December, Pascal Lamy, the European Union's chief trade negotiator, vowed that the E.U. would lodge a WTO complaint if the U.S. blocked steel imports...
Other critics point out that U.S. steel producers have enjoyed varying degrees of import protection for decades. If tariffs and quotas were a formula for success, U.S. mills should already be world beaters. Instead of investing in new equipment and improving worker efficiency, too many U.S. mills and their unions have used artificially high steel prices as an invitation to pocket more in profits, pay and benefits than their competitors abroad--or their customers at home--have done. "Between 1972 and 1981, when import controls were severe, steel wages rose 179% while productivity declined," Goodrich and Gary Hufbauer, also...
...made clear with his words—and he seems determined to make clear with his actions—that the age of foreign policy by reaction is over. Instead of waiting until our enemies attack, we will preemptively destroy their capacity for attack. That is the real import and the true strength of Bush’s tough talk...
...table is crowded with issues. Living wage issues, Core reduction issues, study abroad issues, archaic secretive tenure issues. There are dozens to pick from. They fade in and out, never really completely dropping off the radar. And the import of decisions today, decisions made by the bureaucratic cogs that run this venerable institution, will most likely never make anyone’s life easier or more enriching. At least not today. But the crystal ball is half-full, not half-empty. Mixing metaphors obfuscates the point but—to the rescue—the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer...