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...Feinberg is a close talker. Feinberg, a lawyer who in June was named the Treasury Department's special master for executive compensation, starts his sentences about 18 inches from your face and, with a thick Boston accent, leans in to make his point...
...protectionism, saying the country tries to offer a level playing field for all foreign and domestic businesses. But because China has not signed the World Trade Organization agreement that limits protectionism for government procurement, foreign governments have little recourse. China's National Development and Reform Commission said in June that except in cases where the necessary technology is unavailable domestically, funds from the country's $586 billion stimulus package should buy Chinese-made equipment...
...light snack. But it's just the kind of product that Burger King needs to nibble at McDonald's 75% share of the fast food burger market in Japan. After being squeezed entirely out of the Japan burger market in 2001, Burger King returned to Tokyo in June 2007 with a more regional menu, including a teriyaki Whopper. And this summer, Burger King launched the Angry Whopper, with a campaign that encouraged people to shout their frustrations at full volume to win a year's worth of Whoppers. Had they kept that campaign running until now, McDonald's Japan execs...
...pact may well restore Zelaya to office before the country's Nov. 29 presidential elections. It may also salvage the Obama Administration's standing in the hemisphere. That reputation had faltered in recent months as Obama's commitment to thwarting Honduras' June 28 military putsch came under increasing suspicion in Latin America. (See pictures of violence in Honduras...
...Supreme Court order not to hold a referendum on constitutional reform. They were also worried that he planned to eliminate Honduras' ban on presidential re-election and turn the country into a puppet of his left-wing ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Those fears were the basis for the June coup. Many Zelaya supporters, meanwhile, feel Micheletti and other coup leaders should stand trial as well. Still, Clinton, amid her visit to Pakistan on Friday, hailed Honduras for being a rare "example of a country in Latin America that, having suffered a rupture of its democratic and constitutional order, overcame...