Word: traded
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...great hit rate - Safire columns were just tremendously good fun, full of wordplay, some of it groan-inducing, much of it sheer enjoyment. That is depressingly rare. Not for Safire the cloddish metaphors, arch constructions, one-sentence paragraphs and dreary wonkery that are the stock in trade of too many modern American columnists. He was of that generation of inky-fingered wretches who remember that it isn't a sin for journalism to entertain - indeed, that one way you can get across a point about which you feel passionately is to make people smile while they are absorbing...
...government's new auto-entrepreneur licenses to sell cold drinks and ice cream from a tricycle. While I congratulate the government on its new initiative, once you clear away the "jungle of administrative red tape" there are still the local traditions to deal with. Permission to trade has to be sought from each mairie. I applied to 11 and got permission to trade from only one. Even my local village has refused me. France may have rediscovered the word entrepreneur but it is yet to discover the spirit of the word. Luke Morris, SAUVE, FRANCE
...results. China is now the world's third largest economy, after the U.S. and Japan, and recently surpassed Germany as the largest exporting nation. Its GNP is on course to overtake Japan's by 2010 and perhaps that of the U.S. by 2020. (Read "Why the China-U.S. Trade Dispute Is Heating...
...years ago the new People's Republic was cut off from the world, having diplomatic recognition only from a relatively small number of nations. It was excluded from the U.N. It soon became embroiled in the Korean War and the Cold War, which brought further isolation. Despite some marginal trade with Western Europe following the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina, China was cut off from international trade, finance and aid. As a result, its economy stagnated...
...results if Zelaya is not returned to office by then.) "President Obama and Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton have made a great effort, and I realize they live in a democracy with limits on their actions," he says. "But I do feel they could and should do more, like trade sanctions." When reminded that the U.S. is largely prevented from cutting off trade with Honduras because of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), Zelaya insists, with some irony, "I am still the legitimate President of Honduras, and I approve of that action...