Word: overing
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Though its record on the environment has been spotty so far, the Bush Administration last week took the lead in a major conservation issue by imposing a ban on ivory imports into the U.S. The move came just four days after a consortium of conservation groups, including the World Wildlife...
What the people of Hong Kong discovered they want is democracy for Chinese everywhere, Hong Kong included. While Hong Kong is democratic in spirit, members of its legislature are mostly appointed. An elected legislature could be installed by 1997, but the Basic Law does not call for an elected chief...
-- The 12% come-on is trivial over the long pull; it is designed to cloud your judgment. The true rate on this deal is the "nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%" that Amex talks about. But a footnote reveals this to be an index of short-term, tax-free bonds...
The so-called round-table negotiations, which began in February, were based on a fundamental trade-off: the regime would consent to a large degree of democracy in exchange for social cooperation on the economy; Solidarity would help secure that cooperation in return for its legalization and a share of...
Out of the confusion, a strategy of sorts emerged. Corporations will continue running their present operations in China as long as they can, and will carry through deals that are already under way as long as that is permitted. The dream of satisfying the demand of a billion or more...