Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PARIS: Europeans, fed up with having trade policies vetted by Washington, are gearing up for a fight. With the support of the European Union, France threatened counter-measures Tuesday if the U.S. opts for sanctions against French oil giant Total, which plans to invest $2 billion in Iran...
...lesson is that as an investor, you're still on your own. Wit and E*TRADE will balloon your net worth faster than the average high-growth mutual fund only if you do your homework and deduce which deals are worth betting on. "We're only going to be as good as our reputation," Klein says calmly. "We do the due diligence, we investigate the company, we determine what we think is a fair price." Klein thinks that's a winner, but then it's easy to be sanguine when you've got wheat beer to fall back...
...this are mistaken. But even the politically correct position--that "intelligence" is actually a bundle of different mental capabilities that people have in varying amounts, and that these capabilities can be strongly affected by environmental factors--leaves room for a large genetic component. Few Ashkenazi Jews, I suspect, would trade their genes for a random draw from the gene pool, whatever their fear of colon cancer and whatever they may have felt (and said) about Charles Murray, notorious co-author of The Bell Curve...
...TEXTILE TRADE WITH CHINA...
...story "A New Man in Donorgate?" [NATION, Sept. 8], about a January negotiating round between U.S. and Chinese representatives on a textile trade agreement, strangely omitted a few facts. The individual you focused on, Stephen Lau, whom you characterized as a Hong Kong businessman, openly presented himself as an adviser to the Chinese. While he did join me and other delegation members in a ride to a meeting with Chinese government officials, ostensibly as an escort to the Chinese Ministry of Trade, Lau did not engage in substantive discussions with anyone in the U.S. delegation about the ongoing U.S.-China...