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...spent years?and lost billions?dishing out money to obsolete state-owned enterprises and deadbeat companies, many of which are owned by bankers' and officials' friends and relatives. About one out of every four Chinese bank loans are not paid back, according to official figures generally thought to be rosier than reality. Making reform and recapitalization of domestic banks all the more urgent is the country's entry into the World Trade Organization, which means cash-strapped lenders will, within five years, face competition from foreign financial institutions for the first time...
...last meeting between the Razorbacks and Crimson came at much rosier times, following the Crimson's famed upset of top seed Stanford in the 1998 NCAA Tournament. This Harvard team merely looked to avoid its seventh straight loss in front of a crowd of 2,274 against Arkansas...
...there is something different about McCain's student supporters. Their cheeks are rosier, their cheering louder, their rowdiness rowdier. And it's not obvious why this is so. Gore and Bradley promise the most money for higher education, Bush is the youngest and (arguably) most charming, and Alan Keyes is, well, Alan Keyes. McCain, meanwhile, is a stodgy veteran who, like Grandpa at the fireplace, never stops talking about "when I was your age?...
When the council finally took its next vote for mayor on Valentine's Day, things were looking much rosier for Reeves...
...predicting that they might lose New Hampshire, even as they work flat out to win it.) In Iowa, where McCain is not participating, Bush has maintained a solid margin over publishing tycoon Steve Forbes in the final week before the Jan. 24 caucuses. And the outlook is even rosier nationally, where a new TIME/CNN poll shows Bush trouncing McCain among Republicans by 45 points...