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Married executives who travel a lot have ample opportunities to cheat on a spouse. But if they want to sneak off with a paramour and can't find a convention to attend, they can call an alibi agency. For a membership fee that is usually less than $100, plus $30 to $50 per lie, services like the Alibi Agency, based in Lytham St. Annes, England, will extend fictitious invitations to business conferences. It will receive your calls and patch them through from "the hotel front desk." The agency will even return, say, a necktie "forgotten at the conference." The alibi...
...attacks' aftermath, Chinese, U.S. and European negotiators resolved the last issues holding up the Asian giant's membership in the World Trade Organization. Bush signed into law a trade agreement with Jordan, and the Senate ratified another with Vietnam. Eleven days after the attacks, Bush lifted sanctions on Pakistan and India adopted in May 1998 when the two nations each conducted nuclear weapons tests. Bush delivered yearlong trade privileges to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim state. And he sought to encourage a new round of trade expansion by the WTO when he backed an amendment to a farm...
China is the Asian country best positioned to pull through the global downturn. The economy is still on track to grow 8% this year even as its exports to the U.S. slacken, and Beijing's coming membership in the WTO will require market reforms that by some estimates will boost...
Republican Club membership increased from 75 to 101 in the week before the election last year...
...confession to membership in this organization generally draws one of the following responses...