Word: trading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth is not pretty: a Chinese crackdown on domestic dissent harsher than anything since Tiananmen in 1989; allegations of a concerted campaign of espionage in U.S. nuclear labs; an American trade deficit with China of $57 billion that is second only to the nation's deficit with Japan; and a brewing showdown over providing Taiwan with defense systems against China's ballistic-missile buildup. Relations between Washington and Beijing are frostier than they have been for years, and some in Congress are even talking as if China were the new cold war enemy...
...China tensions just as his own economy is teetering on the edge of breakdown. Time is short. "Black hairs have already turned to gray," he said last month, expressing his frustration at the slow pace of negotiations with the U.S. for China's entry into the World Trade Organization. He could have been referring to his own life story, an ever more difficult struggle against the forces of disintegration, anarchy and corruption that could yet rip China apart...
...looking through the Congressional Record for things related to the Bureau of Patent and Trade. It was work in name only because it was fun," Chen says. She helped out only while observing Lourie in action. "My assignment was to talk to people and gain insight on their lives...
...attorney adviser, Lourie drafts bills on intellectual property and works with other government agencies on domestic and international trade agreements...
...Service faces a specific problem that racial profiling is meant to address. The major overseas drug gangs responsible for the importation of illegal drugs often use the weakest members of their own ethnic groups. "For example," says Shannon, "it is well known that Nigerian crime gangs controlling the heroin trade tend to use U.S. black or Nigerian women as their couriers." The Custom Service does not want to give up the practice of profiling or its right to stop and search African-American women. "What it needs to do," says Shannon, "is to develop procedures that ensure civility and good...