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...people of Gastonia, N.C. The travel industry wants a $10 million loan to promote the U.S. as a destination, a tougher job these days. To the American Apparel & Footwear Association, this crisis only highlights the need to eliminate import tariffs on shoes. "Building self-esteem is critical," explains Matt Rubel, CEO of the parent company of Payless, "and not having a new pair of shoes - you know, having a pair that's tattered and doesn't fit - that does not create good self-esteem...
...year and 79% of toys last year, involved products from China. The volume of consumer goods from China has nearly tripled since 1997, but the agency's budget has increased just 12%, to $62 million, over the past five years. "There's no question it's strapped," says Eric Rubel, a former general counsel to the commission...
...traveled to Harvard last month to present the album which contained his personal notes expressing respect for Harvard. The two copies of the album are now located in the Harvard-Yenching Library and the Rubel Asiatic Research collection in the Fine Arts Library...
...empower people. But it is a lot easier to choose and appreciate freedom if you have bread on your table. It's true that economic reform takes time, but Russians are sick of being guinea pigs in an experiment that hasn't lived up to its promise. AVI RUBEL New York City...
Fermat had a sufficiently august reputation, though -- he laid the foundation for probability theory and analytic geometry theory -- that his tantalizing claim lured generations of mathematicians into attacking the problem. They failed, but in the process, says University of Illinois * mathematician Lee Rubel, they "generated an awful lot of extremely important and powerful mathematics -- it has been a seed for major developments." In fact, the mathematical fallout from Fermat's theorem has turned out to be more significant than the original theorem itself. For decades, Fermat's Last Theorem has been a kind of backwater in math, its significance more...