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American officials view China's six-month-old copyright law as weak and have been pushing for tougher compliance in talks that went nowhere. With Congress apparently bent on enacting its own restrictions, the Administration will now move to recoup losses from Beijing's intellectual poaching by imposing tariffs on such Chinese goods as beer, watches and athletic shoes...
...what Manila's press has dubbed the "war of the widows." Aquino had conceded the first point by reversing her ban on Marcos' return after a Swiss judge ruled that the former First Lady must be found guilty in a Philippine court before the government could hope to recoup an estimated $350 million in "ill-gotten wealth" from frozen Marcos accounts in Swiss banks. Aquino also agreed to allow interment of the still unburied body of the late President Marcos in his home province. But Imelda insists on a hero's burial in Manila's national cemetery. She returned without...
Betts, 38, a part-time employee who has worked 10 years for the state, entered the limelight in June after she discovered a 1990 federal law entitled Massachusetts to recoup the Medicaid money...
...both later-arriving Kuwaitis and women, but there are indications that the Emir will steal their thunder by broadening the franchise himself. "We have botched almost everything since liberation," says Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, the Prime Minister's adviser, "but through politics we now have a chance to recoup...
...stock of rent-controlled housing is fated to deteriorate physically over time, since owners charging low rents are often unable to fund upgrades. And owners contend that even when they do find funds for structural improvements, the city does not allow them to raise rents enough for them to recoup their losses...