Word: skirmished
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...Will domestic American politics turn this skirmish into an all-out trade war? The U.S. faces an expected $130 billion trade deficit with China this year. Protectionists in the U.S. Congress have already floated a bill to end permanent normal trade relations. "This really boils down to jobs," says Pennsylvania Congressman Phil English, a supporter of the legislation. "China's unfair trade practices are causing real pain in the U.S." Last week, Beijing announced it might raise tariffs on unspecified American products if Washington doesn't back down on the steel-import tariffs imposed in March 2002. And it quickly...
Meanwhile, the Eagles will play without their starting goaltender, freshman Allison Rutledge, for the Saturday contest. Rutledge received a game disqualification for fighting in Niagara’s 2-1 victory over Findlay. The skirmish erupted when Findlay players crashed into Rutledge after she covered up the puck late in the third period...
...Reagans skirmish was less about objective facts than subjective balance--which of Reagan's actions really mattered, which didn't, who gets credit, who gets blame--something historians will joust over for decades. No one with sense expects a mini-series to answer those questions, but if The Reagans' critics--and defenders--didn't invest it with more import than it deserved, there would be no advantage to be gained. Truth be told, little real damage can be done by a sensationalized mini-series or a network's cowardly cave-in. But opportunistic partisans have something in common with opportunistic...
...Reagans skirmish was less about objective facts than subjective balance - which of Reagan's actions really mattered, which didn't, who gets credit, who gets blame - something historians will joust over for decades. No one with sense expects a mini-series to answer those questions, but if The Reagans' critics - and defenders - didn't invest it with more import than it deserved, there would be no advantage to be gained. Truth be told, little real damage can be done by a sensationalized mini-series or a network's cowardly cave-in. But opportunistic partisans have something in common with opportunistic...
...ripped out his matted tresses with their bare hands. Khumalo and two other protesters were then blindfolded and driven 20 km out of town, beaten again and dumped in the bush. "They were saying, 'What you chaps started is war,'" Khumalo says. Khumalo's ordeal is just one skirmish in President Robert Mugabe's long, bloody war on dissent. Over the past six weeks, Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party (ZANU-PF) has closed the country's only independent daily newspaper and stepped up its violent crackdown on political opponents and dissidents. The next target: nongovernmental...