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Last week Lee sent another shudder through the tangled relationship. In a carefully calculated statement, he cut away the political fiction that has kept the three parties at peace for nearly three decades. Taiwan, he said, no longer subscribed to the deliberately ambiguous "one China" formula that deemed the Chinese mainland and Taiwan two parts of the same country. From now on, declared Lee, Taiwan intended to operate on a "state-to-state" basis with the mainland, demanding that Beijing treat the island as an equal. This "clarification" to Beijing's ears seemed touchily close to a declaration of independence...
...although the fire alarm kept researchers out of the six-story building until a fire engine checked the scene, the Medical School's emergency power systems kept lights and other crucial electrical systems online...
...although the fire alarm kept researchers out of the six-story building until a fire engine checked the scene, the Medical School's emergency power systems kept lights and other crucial electrical systems online...
...veteran group whose members have known one another and played together for a decade in some cases. They won the Olympic gold medal in 1996, and some, including Akers, were around in 1991, when the team won the inaugural World Cup, held in China, where the event apparently was kept a state secret. Indeed, the team barely played the next year because U.S. Soccer couldn't afford to pay anyone...
...scanned into cyberspace, so you can view the original documents online before authorizing payment. All three companies pledge to work with any biller and any bank and to insure losses due to error or fraud. They assert that all transactions are encrypted for security and that personal information is kept confidential...