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Tariffs on half of currently taxed products will be dropped immediately, as would all Mexican import licenses, which cover one-fourth of U.S. exports...
...amount of improved management will make up for the shortfall in money. The lack of resources is chronic: this year's estimated $3.2 billion peacekeeping budget is more than $1 billion in arrears. Congress has just cut the U.S. share of new bills from nearly one-third to one-fourth. The shortage of funds results from a lack of political will. "Somalia was reality therapy for the international community," says the U.N.'s Annan. "Intellectually we were ready for it. Emotionally we were...
Gonzales said this Wednesday she arrived in the lecture hall at 8:30 a.m. and it was already about one-fourth full. By the time Mallinkrodt Professor of Chemistry George M. Whitesides '60 arrived a half-hour later, the aisles were packed and he had to step over students to make it to the lectern...
Still, most of you would probably think twice before spending $40 ($46, with a 15 percent tip) on your hair, especially when you could walk a few blocks and pay one-fourth as much. But Diego's has an ethos to match its costiliness, making their haircuts a very different experience from listening to Jerry ramble for 20 minutes...
...reflects a recognition that violence has become one of the country's worst public-health threats. The U.S. is the most violent nation in the industrialized world. Homicide is the second most frequent cause of death among Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 (after accidents) and the most common among young black men and women. More than 2 million people are beaten, knifed, shot or otherwise assaulted each year, 23,000 of them fatally. No other industrialized nation comes close: Scotland, which ranked second in homicides, has less than one-fourth the U.S. rate...