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...Alarmed by the rising death toll, Hanoi's bureau- crats are using trade rules as an air bag. The country is not directly restricting motorcycle production. It is doing so indirectly, by limiting the flow of parts that go into bikes. In September, the government announced it was slashing the number of "assembly kits" manufacturers are allowed to import this year from 2.5 million down to 1.5 million?effectively cutting the motorcycle output of Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki by some 40% at a time when they are already feeling pressure from cheaper Chinese-made bikes...
...finishers go to a run-off on Dec. 7, meaning that it's possible that the Senate could remain locked 49 to 49 to 1 until then. Just in case such a scenario plays out, both parties (having learned a lesson from the last election) have established toll-free hot lines to report voting irregularities. The Democrats have also assembled an army of attorneys to stand by in districts with close races and questionable voter-participation histories, and the Republicans are mobilizing their own army of poll watchers...
...Approaching Manhattan. California native Fink ends up driving us over the Triborough Bridge twice, paying the toll twice. Fink: “Let’s not tell anybody about this.” Me: “True...
...economic cost of the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. was estimated to be tens of billions of dollars. But as Indonesians like Yasin begin to assess the damage of the terrorism that has slammed into their homeland, some fear their cost ultimately could be far greater than the toll in America?that it could turn Indonesia, the world's fourth most-populous country, into a failed state. Just four years after the dictator Suharto was run out of office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills...
...cleaning companies’ cost-cutting strategy exacts a terrible human toll. One female janitor, screaming into a megaphone before a march at the Park St. T stop, described the situation she and her family face. Her son is often sick and needs a lot of medicine to stay healthy. But if she buys his medicine, she can’t buy food. So the question every week is whether the son will be healthy and the family can’t eat, or whether he’ll be sick and there’ll be food...