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...marketing plans. In keeping with its World Trade Organization promises, China has been slowly opening its domestic market to foreign brands, lowering tariffs from 65% to 25% in 2004, and streamlining the rules for sales and distribution. British American Tobacco has tried (so far unsuccessfully) to set up a joint venture to manufacture cigarettes in China. U.S. giant Altria, formerly Philip Morris, has also been negotiating with the government to manufacture and sell its top-selling Marlboro brand on the mainland. Indeed, with most Chinese smokers hacking away from the harsh, high-tar brands produced by the state-owned monopoly...
...profits over the past few years; they have the means to buy smaller companies." CMA had $4.95 billion in revenues last year and has been expanding rapidly, particularly in China. To that end, CMA partnered with the state-controlled China Shipping Group, the industry's eighth largest, in a joint bid for CP Ships, valued at $1.46 billion. A share of CP's 80 vessels would bolster the 193-ship CMA fleet, and the partnership would help strengthen CMA's position in China. In 2004, 46% of U.S. containerized imports came from China, and shipments from China to American shores...
...together. Their co-hosting gig at the movie premiere came at the end of a day they had begun together at a news conference. Last week found McCain and Clinton together again as part of a congressional delegation surveying melting glaciers in Alaska. And there was that brow-raising joint appearance from Baghdad on Meet the Press last winter, in which each declared that the other would make a good President...
...here, where he lived, where we can get to him." Now the Hilburgs face a second heartbreak: the Gush Katif cemetery housing 48 Jewish graves will have to be evacuated too. "They have to get out every single particle," says Bryna as she stares at her own hands, "every joint and finger and toe that has fallen away when there are no ligaments left." The Israeli government has said it will remove those graves after all the settlers have gone, but most families still have no idea where their loved ones will be reburied. Bryna and Sammy are anguished...
...quickly became apparent that Pyongyang's position had not changed. Denuclearization, in any normal meaning of the term, was not going to be on the agenda. Never mind the secret uranium program that Pyongyang still publicly avers is nonexistent. North Korea says it will not sign a joint statement endorsing eventual denuclearization because it wishes to preserve the option of peaceful nuclear-power development. Instead, the North has tried to turn the talks into an international forum on U.S. military disengagement from South Korea. Although Washington has not based nuclear weapons in the South for nearly 15 years, Pyongyang...