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...FILED. A COMPLAINT to the World Trade Organization by the U.S. accusing China of unfair trade practices; in Geneva. The complaint was the first lodged against China since it joined the international trade body in 2001. The U.S. says that tax rebates China grants to domestic semiconductor makers give them an unfair pricing advantage over foreign chipmakers exporting their products to China...
...been warning signs of the impending breakdown. So it is with South Korea's democratic system: signs of trouble were there, whether or not we cared to take them seriously. We might now remember how former President Kim Dae Jung?that avowed champion of openness, law and democracy?launched tax probes against local media, a move many saw as an attempt to intimidate publications that criticized his policies. (In 1999, the International Press Institute in Vienna even sent the future Nobel Laureate a letter begging him to desist from his campaign against South Korea's free press.) Then there...
Isaacson criticized Rankin for dealing in theoretical arguments. “Marriage is not abstract,” she said, citing examples of health insurance, pension benefits, workers compensation, adoption rights and the ability to file joint tax returns as practical benefits afforded only to married couples...
Greenberg said the political strategy of President Bush, as directed by chief political adviser Karl Rove, is to excite the conservative base on key issues and use select initiatives to reach out to certain targeted groups. He said tax cuts, farm subsidies and aggressive positions on social issues such as abortion and gay marriage are specifically directed at business interests, rural voters and white evangelicals—three key elements of the base. He said Bush administration policies on education, immigration reform and prescription drugs are designed to capture votes from suburban women, Hispanics and seniors, respectively...
...Since 9/11, owners of these facilities have feared that a few such attacks, indeed even just one, would keep customers away long enough to bring bankruptcy. The financial cost of adequately protecting the thousands of such venues, assuming that was feasible, would put a large dent in profits or tax revenues. The effects of such attacks on the U.S. economy could be devastating. For bin Laden, who has called upon his followers to destroy the American economy, such considerations surely fit with the goal of sweeping away the superpower to make way for a global theocracy...