Word: premieres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about geo-economics than geopolitics" and that it's "largely up to China" to ease tensions. In 2002, China, at $103 billion, surpassed Japan as the country with the largest trade surplus with the U.S. The Bush Administration had a chance to raise some of these issues with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao when he visited Washington in December. But there were few signs that trade issues were a big concern. Wen accepted the 19-gun salute he received on the South Lawn of the White House, then fired his own volley, gently reminding his hosts that China is the fastest...
...conservation and management dollars - you?re forced to monitor only when you need to.? When Mooney and a visiting ecologist, Marco Restani of Minnesota?s St. Cloud State University, carried out that first snapshot survey last year, Restani paid for the hire of their trailer. Since then, Tasmanian Labor premier Jim Bacon, promising that the devil will not follow the thylacine into extinction, has committed $A1.8 million. The federal government has provided no funding: Environment Minister David Kemp says that while he would be ?open to any approach for assistance,? managing wildlife is a state responsibility. The Commonwealth usually gets...
...talk of being an international center of learning is just an empty slogan unless it follows through with this simple action. And wouldn’t this diversity be good for the country as a whole if it is beneficial to one of America’s premier academic institutions...
...Summers] recognized when high-profile visitors came to Harvard that it does take quite a bit of time and attention to do these things thoughtfully and carefully,” she said, citing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s December appearance at the Business School. “The political circumstances need to be taken care...
...transgression? At Wen’s address, Howard, who is co-president of Students for a Free Tibet, unfurled a Tibetan flag and interrupted the Premier, yelling out, “Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people!” After being asked to return to her seat, she replied: “People in Tibet cannot speak so we must speak for them...