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...growing caution over making a great leap forward on the path to capitalism. Last August, Jiang called for a revitalization - rather than privatization - of state-owned enterprises, stressing they'd play an integral role in China's future. And in February, the National People's Congress claimed an increased slice of authority over economic policy, which had previously been Zhu's domain...
...Unable to defend itself against the rebels initially, the elected government had hired mercenaries to fight the rebels, and, in particular, to protect the diamond fields. Part of the mercenaries' price was that they wanted a slice of the diamond industry themselves as part of their payment. And that's something the West found objectionable. So part of the condition for foreign assistance through the U.N. and the World Bank was that the government had to get rid of the mercenaries. The problem is that once the mercenaries withdrew, the rebels quickly overran the diamond fields and that changed...
BILL GATES Everyone want to slice 'n' dice you. Hey, Rockefeller made his biggest $$$ after breakup...
...personal goal for this event was to show to Harvard a slice of Latino life that it may not normally see," Prieto said...
Sometimes you'll find yourself in seminars with only a handful of students. These can be excellent, unless you haven't cracked the binding on your overpriced books from the Coop. Shocking as it might seem, students are occasionally unprepared for class, choosing one more slice at Tommy's House of Pizza rather than reading those last hundred pages of Bleak House...