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...within the LDP has the stomach to launch a coup. But while he grimly holds on and the LDP squabbles over its future, the DPJ faces urgent problems of its own. Though it now holds the Upper House, the ruling coalition of the LDP and New Komeito maintain a majority in the more powerful Lower House, which will continue at least until elections in September 2009. DPJ officials have said they'll try to pressure Abe into calling snap elections, but there's no way of forcing one short of blocking all legislation and turning the Diet into a Tokyo...
...Where they're building [them] is right in our battle space," says Grigsby. "We know that." Because of the time taken to acquire and assemble bomb parts, his men seek to interdict bomb materiel and maintain pressure on the militants, to put them on the defensive in the hopes of disrupting their offensive plans. Capt. Richard Thompson, 35, explains the thinking: "If we don't kill or capture a bad guy that [particular], night the message to him is still, you are not safe...
...Kyoto Protocol can’t just be renewed,” Stavins said. “Our intention with this project is to come up with a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic plan, and the current protocol, most of us would maintain, is none of these...
...that would allow the Treasury to take action against China by lowering its standard for identifying currency distortion. Under existing law, the Treasury has had to prove that China intended to manipulate its currency. Under the bill, the Treasury would issue a report every six months on countries that maintain exchange rates that are "fundamentally misaligned" to the market value of their currencies, regardless of whether or not the government intended it for trade advantage. The bill also enables the Treasury to levy penalizing duties on imports from currency-manipulating countries. Since China stopped pegging its currency to the dollar...
...flag. Instead, it is hoping to forestall further sanctions to pursue a deal with the Europeans that strictly limits but does not entirely eliminate uranium enrichment on Iranian soil. The Iranians believe the Europeans are willing to settle for a compromise on the enrichment issue that allows Iran to maintain some limited research capability under international supervision, recognizing that Iran has already gained the know-how that Washington's zero-enrichment position was designed to prevent. And Tehran's newly cooperative stance appears to have at least succeeded in postponing any further U.N. action at least for the rest...