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...following day, Taiwanese managers of neighboring plants didn't show up for work. Many cleared out of town to lie low for a few days. Those who stayed behind spoke tensely. "We're here to do business," said Liao Mu-san, who like Hou and Yeh deals in scrap metals. "It's every man for himself...
...missile defense, the administration is sending mixed messages. The White House will consult with allies and erstwhile adversaries, but at the same time insists that it will scrap the current framework of arms control treaties if those allies don't consent to the scheme. That, and the administration's rejection of a slew of smaller agreements on issues ranging from small arms to biological weapons has sent a message that Washington doesn't care much about any rules except...
There could be calls to revisit the Maastricht Treaty, which established the ground rules for the single-currency system. The plan would be not to scrap the entire euro system but to rewrite some of the rules to enable each country to have more control over its domestic economy. "No one is questioning the basic premise of the euro," says Carl Weinberg, chief international economist of High Frequency Economics. "It is here to stay, and it's going to work. But the ECB may be subject to more criticism...
...There could be calls to revisit the Maastricht Treaty, which established the ground rules for the single-currency system. The plan would be not to scrap the entire euro system but to rewrite some of the rules to enable each country to have more control over its domestic economy. "No one is questioning the basic premise of the euro," says Carl Weinberg, chief international economist of High Frequency Economics. "It is here to stay, and it's going to work. But the ECB may be subject to more criticism...
...most far-reaching environmental treaty in history being negotiated without the United States would have been almost unthinkable a few years ago. The delegates at Bonn appeared to be well aware of the political significance of their decision to respond to the Bush administration's attempt to scrap the agreement by simply going ahead without America. EU negotiator Olivier Deleuze told the delegates at Bonn, "Almost every single country stayed in the protocol. There was one that said the protocol was flawed. Do you see the Kyoto Protocol flawed...