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...economic aid from such countries as South Korea and Japan. The CIA takes a middle view: that the North Koreans may allow inspection of their seven declared facilities but not the two undeclared ones. The reason, the agency said in the report, was that Pyongyang would want to retain what it already has, whether that is plutonium, a couple of bombs or only the nervous uncertainty of its neighbors...
Negotiators overcame several obstacles to a major world trade agreement by resolving the persistently thorny issue of protection for French farmers and by lifting a Japanese ban on rice imports. Progress was halted, however, by France's demand that it retain subsidies and protection for its film industry. The talks face a Wednesday deadline...
...important issue here is that theseinstitutions, as independent but affiliatedinstitutions, retain their capacity to makeimportant contributions to the educational andresearch missions of the University," Buchanansaid. "There is tremendous loyalty...throughoutthe institutions to Harvard as our academicflagship...
...United States. As part of the most recent immigrant group, we reap the benefits of the civil rights movements of the past; but we struggle for acceptance in affirmative action and equal rights programs tailored for the Black and Hispanic populations. American society gives us the opportunity to retain our cultural heritage, yet it pressures us more than ever to blend into the mainstream...
...Merchant-Ivory film once a year, a Martin Scorsese film once a lifetime. The past is almost never seen as a tragic force. Or as something that contains a certain few shattering, shaping occurrences with which each generation must come to terms anew if it is to retain its moral footing...