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...market, in which they once enjoyed a 45% share. That was before the U.S. industry got Washington to impose whopping 63% tariffs, slashing Brazil's slice of the $8 billion market to just 12%. Brazil, with its much lower costs, has threatened to scuttle the whole free-trade area unless it regains free access for its juice. But the citrus agency in Florida claims that without tariffs, it could not "keep our growers in business...
...kind of bitter medicine the protocol prescribes, with the U.S. taking the biggest slug, did not go down well in Washington even before Bush arrived. In 1997 the Senate, which must ratify treaties, voted 95 to 0 that no global-warming pact that came before it would be okayed unless it treated developed and developing countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto--though it was more than mere conscience that was probably driving the Senate. One of the resolution's sponsors was Democratic Senator Robert Byrd, from...
What bothers potential teachers more is the long bureaucratic delays in getting certified and assigned in many big-city school districts. In New York City it can sometimes take a year for a teacher to be assigned to a school--unless he is part of the accelerated-certification program. "Going through what the board of education usually requires is not what I had the patience for," says Fogel. "I'm doing this practically as a volunteer"--for a fraction of his former salary...
...enunciating every syllable and every break between syllables, she used a steady tone that demanded the listener’s concentration, and the audience seemed willing to give it. Many poets read in this way, and it seems generally accepted, but it can muffle the voice of a poem unless executed with prodigious expertise. Prior knowledge of Trethewey’s work probably would have benefited my listening in this instance...
...early 1940s, these long-cherished goals were attained, and the foreigners once more compelled to see China in its own terms rather than in theirs. The Chinese communist government inherited these gains, and is certainly not likely to ever yield them up again, unless confronted with overwhelming force. Their pride demands that they call the shots, not only in normal situations but also in such accidental or even freakish encounters as that which has just occurred. For the United States to fail to understand this would be a serious mistake. Like the British, they are learning that sometimes things just...