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...June deal that Mandelson struck with Beijing that limited some Chinese textile exports to the E.U. At the time, Europe's textile industry, backed by the French, Spanish and other governments, was screaming for protection from a surge in low-cost Chinese garments following the end of an international quota system last December. European retailers, increasingly dependent on China as the key source for clothing, never liked the accord. But their disquiet has turned to fury. Big chains including Britain's Next, Germany's Metro and Sweden's H&M complain about not receiving their fall and Christmas stocks. "Textile...
Keener is also perfect for naturally portraying a beautiful woman who isn’t beyond the reach of Andy. The rest of the cast (including Christopher-Guest-troop member Jane Lynch as Carell’s boss) satisfies the loon quota. “Virgin” rarely fails—an alcoholic driving scene is the only real miss—and it catches itself when it does...
Under Cambridge’s intricate election system, citizens can vote for as many candidates as they wish, but must rank them in order of preference. Any candidate who meets a pre-determined quota of first-place votes is immediately elected, and the votes are recounted until all nine spots have been filled. The mayor is later chosen by the Council from among its members; Sullivan, for example, was picked for the office in 2001 despite garnering only the seventh-highest amount of first-place votes...
...billion. The family is the majority shareholder. Tom O'Connor, executive vice president, says going private gave Springs the flexibility it needed to address the tough reality facing the industry. "We also recognized early on where trade laws were going--that this is going to be a quota-free world--and said, Let's get our ducks...
...campaign called the "great production movement," aimed at boosting local harvests. It included a system of "rewarding the hardworking and punishing the lazy" by paying bonuses to model producers. Another feature was "contract work," committing users of public fields and rice paddies to turn over an agreed-upon production quota to the authorities and allowing those farmers to keep anything that exceeded it. According to a recent article in the Chinese journal Modern History Studies, Deng himself joined an army team in tending a wheat field...