Word: pascale
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...Steel Wars President George W. Bush provoked outrage and formal complaints from America's major trading partners after imposing tariffs of up to 30% on foreign steel imports. E.U. trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy said the "shortsighted" move broke international trade rules and filed a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization. Several other countries including Japan and Russia followed suit. Bush said the measures were "temporary safeguards" to allow the restructuring of the U.S. steel industry. But E.U. member states, fearing a diversion of steel imports into Europe, said they would seek compensation...
...steel products, such as hot-rolled sheet, actually declined from the end of 1998 through 2001, and under World Trade Organization rules, America's trading partners may be authorized to retaliate immediately if the U.S. imposes hefty tariffs or quotas. In a speech in London in December, Pascal Lamy, the European Union's chief trade negotiator, vowed that the E.U. would lodge a WTO complaint if the U.S. blocked steel imports...
DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, Spanish writer, bon vivant and 1989 Nobel laureate in literature; in Madrid. The flamboyant author pioneered "tremendismo," a raw writing style that Spain would claim as its own, though Cela's first work, The Family of Pascal Duarte (1942), was considered so violent it was banned in his country and first published in Argentina. The novel eventually became one of the best-read works of Spanish fiction since Cervantes' Don Quixote...
...fifth - and supposedly last - day of the conference, he stepped in to help his pal, beleaguered European Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, who was struggling to defend the E.U.?s much-maligned Common Agricultural Policy. With the rest of the WTO seeking an apparently innocuous commitment to phase out agriculture subsidies, and France threatening to flounce out of the meeting if such a plan were accepted, Zoellick came up with a face-saving caveat. The words phasing out were kept, but they were preceded by "without prejudging the outcome of the negotiations," meaning that there was no need actually...
After a barrage of Harvard shots midway through the third period nearly gave the Crimson a one-goal lead, Kirley was able to gather the final rebound and send it to sophomore Pascal Denis along the right-wing boards...