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...Khamenei is also a pragmatist. Although he has allowed pro-democracy politicians to be crushed, he has shied away from stifling reform urges altogether. Satellite TV, Internet access, expanded political debate, looser restrictions on women's dress and mixing of the sexes are reform-movement achievements that Khamenei has allowed to stand. He has presided over the most significant opening to the outside world since the revolution. In December, with Khamenei's approval, the government signed a protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency allowing inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities--a sea change from the republic's long standoff...
...method of designing is based on the druthers system. "I'll take a jacket from my closet and think, I wish this had a looser fit or different pockets," she says. "My design inspiration comes from my own closet, my own thighs, my own life. It's business, but it's personal." --By Ellen Tien
...tariff on Brazilian o.j. In the past 15 years, that has cut Brazil's share of the U.S. frozen concentrated orange-juice market from 45% to less than 15%. The U.S. claims it can't negotiate those duties in the ftaa. The reason: Brazil's lower wages and looser environmental standards, for example, make it over 60? cheaper for Brazilians to harvest a kilo of oranges, thus putting U.S. growers at a competitive disadvantage. Experts like Connolly say that handicap isn't as severe as the U.S. complains. Cases like the juice tariff - as well as the tariffs pampering...
Fitzsimmons said this year’s drop is due entirely to a change in application policies that reinstated pre-1999 restrictions on early applicants, after several years of looser early application policies...
This decrease comes as the University reinstates pre-1999 restrictions, after several years of looser early application policies...