Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corps of specially trained killer moles, which can spot and, with their frighteningly large incisors, quickly disembowel any enemies of the city attempting to infiltrate the deliberately darkened access tunnel. Fact: The mayor has sensibly proposed building an emergency control center for merely $15 million in the World Trade Center. Should any danger--be it a raid by crazed fundamentalist bioterrorists, a stock-market crash or a strike of rollerblading dog walkers--threaten New York, the mayor would inch through traffic, clamber up 22 flights of steps (can't trust elevators in a crisis--they might be booby-trapped!), pausing...
...Meurice can clean and FedEx them right back. Cost to send and clean a suede jacket? About $150. (The service has clients as far away as Rome.) But what excuse can be made for Mint Balls ($3.99 for two), which will be introduced at the National Pet Products Trade Show in Atlanta this week? Fido thinks you're playing catch, but you're really mint-freshening his breath...
Clinton is regularly vilified by a broad spectrum of critics who charge him with selling out American values in the name of trade with China. The impression they give is that Washington will concede anything to do business deals with Beijing. China is a tough customer when it comes to buying American. There is an enticing market there of 1.2 billion people, but most U.S. trade with China runs the other way. The deficit is running at $4.3 billion because Americans buy 70% of their low-end consumer goods, like shoes, toys and textiles, from China, which has replaced richer...
...Clinton see fundamental flaws in a system that has led to banks facing more than $600 billion in bad or doubtful debt. But Prime Minister Hashimoto and top Japanese financial officials are in "stimulus package" mode, not "major restructuring" mode. As one young Japanese entrepreneur told me, if the trade negotiators craft a plan wherein no one is required to take responsibility for the flaws in the Japanese economic structure, "we'll do it." Otherwise, it is likely that nothing much will happen in terms of change...
...worthy of being treated like a normal country where a lot can be achieved," says Branegan. "His trip is to show the U.S. media the parts of China he wants them to see in order to understand the need for engagement." So don't expect any breakthroughs on trade, Taiwan, Tibet or human rights. Instead, expect a preview of the next century...