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...Mandarin for her core fans and is determined to make it a great album. "I'm writing some of the material myself," she says. "I've been offered so many songs, but we're only going to record three of this batch because I gotta be pickier. Gotta be strict with this album." She wags her finger self-admonishingly, still disappointed with the quality of some of the assembly-line recordings she made in the past...
...that of the U.S. Yet Russia's global share of the high-tech market is around 0.3%; America's is 130 times higher. Russia has to fix lots of things for that imbalance to change. Among them: its weak enforcement of intellectual property laws, onerous business registration procedures and strict controls on the export of hard currency. Also, Russian entrepreneurs lack the business basics...
...alert," said Chuck Lambert, chief economist at the U.S. National Cattlemen's Beef Association as Department of Agriculture inspectors imposed strict checks on goods and passengers arriving from Britain and France. "We have to re-energize our systems and not be lax." From Sydney to Seattle, worried officials banned European meat imports, confiscated sandwiches and decontaminated arriving passengers to prevent inadvertent infection by a disease that, like everything else these days, is going global...
...government is standing by a forecast of at least 2.6% growth this year, but the Federation of German Banks dropped its expectation down to 2.2%. Germany is more vulnerable to the U.S. downturn because it tends to have weak domestic demand. Unemployment remains relatively high - in part because those strict labor rules make employers reluctant to hire - and Germans aren't eager to part with their deutschemarks even in the best of times. "It's saving for a rainy day," says Neil Parker, market strategist at the Royal Bank of Scotland. "But it's going to have to rain pretty...
...mostly from the Netherlands and Denmark. Such cooked and cured meats as canned hams, prepared sausages and prosciutto are not affected because heating or processing kills the foot-and-mouth virus. Certain dairy products like yogurt, Brie and hard cheeses are also exempt, since they are already subject to strict manufacturing conditions, including pasteurization...