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Friendship and cooperation between our two peoples are of great importance to the world. The United States is the most developed country, and China the largest developing country. China is a country with 1.2 billion people. Its stability and rapid development in of vital importance to the stability and development in Asia-Pacific and the world at large. China holds a huge market and great demand for development, and the United States holds advanced science and technology, as well as enormous material force. The economies of the two countries are therefore highly complementary with each other. China's potential market...
After brief introductions by Hunt, Knowles and Rudenstine, Jiang took center stage, where he proceeded to keep audiences in Sanders, Science Center A and E and the Boylston auditorium racing to keep up with the rapid Mandarin-to-English translation...
...region where the once grand gown of the Asian Miracle is weekly growing more frayed and tattered. From Seoul to Bangkok, economies that earlier made annual double-digit growth look easy are now strangling on a lethal brew of skyrocketing interest rates, current-account deficits, shrinking budgets and rapid flight of the foreign loans and capital that in many countries underwrote the miracle. "Right now my feeling is one of despair," says a Jakarta stockbroker who has watched the Indonesian stock market drop 33% since July. (It was down 5.8% just last week.) "Looks like it's going...
...nations to 15% less than 1990 levels by the year 2010. And in Bonn last week, the so-called G77 group of 77 developing nations, along with China, signed on to the European plan (which doesn't require developing countries to make any cuts at all, even though their rapid industrialization and inefficient technology could eventually make them the world's leading polluters...
...stand absolutely still. If the station's wound was a mortal one, the atmosphere inside would gush out of the ship, and Foale's ears would pop suddenly and painfully. If that happened, the pain would probably be one of the last things he would ever feel, as rapid depressurization would kill the crew almost instantly...