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...This growing protest comes ahead of the Oct. 19 G-7 meeting in Washington, where European vexation over hands-off American attitudes toward the weakening dollar will be a main topic of discussion. Long a complaint aired primarily by the French, American willingness to allow the dollar to slip, which makes U.S. exports cheaper compared to foreign rivals, is now being denounced by a growing number of E.U. officials. Responding to the widening exchange rate gap from Luxembourg on Monday, Jean-Claude Junker - head of the Eurogroup of 13 nations who share the euro as their currency - complained about American...
...Juncker's grumblings were preceded by similar criticism across Europe in recent weeks as the dollar dropped, including concerns voiced by German business leaders and economists who had long viewed a strong euro as a symbol of monetary rectitude. That crescendo of protest led France's Economy Minister Christine Lagarde to remind French economic daily Les Echos that Paris had long "sounded the alarm at the risk of irritating" more relaxed euro partners. She applauded signs that they had become "worried about the euro's level, and voiced their wishes to see concerted action" in response. Before...
...feed—talk about “eating good in the neighborhood”—but merely to cover up the twins. What unfurled after that was the first-ever national “nurse-in” at that local Applebee’s to protest the allegedly outrageous actions of the store manager...
...theatrically bad, Paris Hilton bad: hilariously awful. We Mets fans became connoisseurs of baseball perversity. I was sitting in the stands the day Marvelous Marv Throneberry hit a triple and was called out for missing second base. The Mets manager, the extremely antique Casey Stengel, wobbled out to protest but was told by the umpire not to push it too hard. Marvelous Marv had missed first base...
...headlines and stories. On the Internet, meanwhile, where normally much greater latitude is allowed than in "old media," scores of websites have been shut down and policing of the Web tightened to such an extent that some prominent bloggers have closed down until the conference is over in protest at having their posts deleted. One blogger left a sarcastic post "wishing the Party a smooth and successful 17th Congress...