Word: southeasterly
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...Even if the China dreams don't pan out, there are other nearby markets to tap. A free-trade agreement among the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently reduced tariffs on electronic goods, previously as high as 30%, to zero. That gave Vietnam's electronics manufacturers greater access to a trading bloc of half a billion people. "We can be the gateway for export to China," boasts Hoang Van Dung, vice president of Vietnam's Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanoi, "And we can export to ASEAN and the West at the same time...
...that may not be enough for Tisha Tallmann, Southeast regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. She says her organization is still considering a legal challenge to the Act, in part because immigrants, she says, contribute some $200 million to the annual tax base, and should not be denied public services that they help fund. "Instead of waiting for Congress," says Tallmann, "Georgia has decided to take matters into its own hands, signing into law a punitive bill that does nothing to solve this complex issue." Unless Washington can finally tackle that issue, more states will...
...house with a difference, this four-story design is London-based Youmeheshe's answer to a British-government challenge to architects to design a $104,000 house. The result is an eye-catching, bio-fueled, timber-clad structure that "touches the ground lightly." Production is slated to begin in southeast London by summer. CASSE-TETE - ALGECO www.al geco.fr When Europe's largest builder of modular offices and outbuildings asked architecture students to imagine private habitats, the 78-sq-m Casse-Tête, featuring mini-terraces and supersleek insides, was one of two winning French designs. Inspired by the results...
...attention of the nation was moving to [Vietnam] and away from civil rights,” says Lake. Young activists now flocked back to their campuses to protest the growing war in Southeast Asia...
...lunchtime at Shelbyville High School, 30 miles southeast of Indianapolis, Ind., and more than 100 teenagers are buzzing over trays in the cafeteria. Like high schoolers everywhere, they have arranged themselves by type: jocks, preps, cheerleaders, dorks, punks and gamers, all with tables of their own. But when they are finished chugging the milk and throwing Tater Tots at one another, they will drift out to their classes and slouch together through lessons on Edgar Allan Poe and Pythagoras. It's the promise of American public education: no matter who you are or where you come from, you will...