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...That's something the Chinese increasingly want to avoid. Indeed, as Paulson and his team noted at this week's meetings, Beijing has started to make its trading partners nervous with a recent, relatively small reversal of the slow and steady rise in the RMB's value against the dollar. As a senior executive at a state-owned financial institution conceded to TIME two weeks ago, there is undeniable pressure from China's politically powerful export sector to weaken the RMB, which would make Chinese goods more price competitive abroad. If China triggered a wave of devaluations from other East...
...thought that [DiSesa’s] match was incredible. After he lost the third, I was a bit nervous, but he really came back strong and overwhelmed his opponent in the end,” Auerbach said. “He fought point after point and his composure really helped him endure...
...Fragile Gains The scenario makes some observers nervous. Says one UNPOL source: "If the s__ hits the fan, the PNTL will just head for home. They will go back to their villages and it will be every man for himself." Australian academic Bu Wilson has just completed a review of the PNTL's capability. She fears that "rather than rebuilding the PNTL, the U.N. mission may be instead bequeathing a weak and unstable police force to Timor-Leste...
...last fall, tired of this absurdity, Rhodes e-mailed Michelle Rhee, the new, bold-talking chancellor running the District of Columbia Public Schools system. His teacher had given him the address, which was on the chancellor's home page. He was nervous when he hit SEND, but the words were reasonable. "Computers are slowly becoming something that we use every day," he wrote. "And learning how to use them is a major factor in our lives. So I'm just bringing this to your attention." He didn't expect to hear back. Rhee answered the same...
...said. “They put up a really strong lineup. We knew that they were going to be tough and pushed ourselves for the results.” The Crimson came into this meet feeling a bit of pressure. “A lot of the team was nervous. Columbia had posted some fast times near the start of the season, and we knew that [the Lions] were going to be a tough challenge,” co-captain Kelly Mooney said. After losing the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:47.61 to the Lions?...