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...percent spike and turned it into a 3.4 percent drop) carmakers are doing just what we want everybody else to do. They're refilling their lots. Production of automobiles and parts jumped a whopping 6.4 percent in November, taking the edge off the rest of the manufacturing sector's stubborn statistical lethargy...
...stance on cross-strait relations. KMT candidate Chen Hsueh-fen, for example, spent much of the campaign arguing that her party should cooperate more closely with the DPP, a move she said would involve adopting a Lee-esque position on China. If the mainlander element of the KMT proves stubborn, Chen hinted that between 20 and 30 members of the party are ready to act unilaterally, perhaps even defecting to the DPP. While that might be an exaggeration, many analysts believe that a significant chunk of the KMT harbors similar sentiments and that this could, at a minimum, portend...
...craggy dissident, as if slumped in the corner of some dim café, the British-born journalist and author evidently seeks to cast himself as a morose rebel from the outset. The mission of Letters to a Young Contrarian, the latest addition to a career carved in stubborn public controversy, fits in nicely with this conceit: the seasoned revolutionary passes his wisdom onto flame-brained youth...
We’d probably stay. We’re a stubborn bunch...
...probably stands there directing traffic for hours each day, is not just passing through. He doesn’t wear a mask. Real stubborn...