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Moreover, there are the numerous immediate economic issues that have so elevated Sino-U.S. tensions this summer. First there was the uproar about textile quotas. Since Jan. 1 when global textile quotas were abolished, Chinese textiles have flooded American markets, resulting in job losses and industry complaints. The ensuing negotiations, which are still progressing unhurriedly and uncertainly, have been the cause of much friction between Beijing and Washington. Another touchy area is that of China’s currency. Many U.S. trade groups accuse China of keeping the yuan artificially cheap to bolster exports. The yuan was revalued...
...confusion, on two separate occasions, of the accounting concepts of "net" and "gross." But some of the most serious gaffes have been made by her party colleagues, offending voters in the east whose support for the Linksbündnis could prove decisive. Earlier this month Stoiber caused an uproar when he complained about the influence of east German voters. Merkel, an easterner herself, handled the furore deftly, praising east Germans for their huge effort to rebuild their economy and society after the fall of the Wall. Ruth Kranz, 37, a teacher from Wolfhagen, near Kassel, intends to vote for Merkel...
Hammonds will also try to improve the University’s “climate” for women and minorities. She will offer implementation support for the Task Forces on Women, which were created this February in response to uproar when Summers appeared to dismiss a link between discrimination and scarcity of women in the University’s upper echelons...
Hammonds will also try to improve the University’s “climate” for women and minorities. She will offer implementation support for the Task Forces on Women, which were created this February in response to uproar when Summers appeared to dismiss a link between discrimination and scarcity of women in the University’s upper echelons...
After some uproar, the Department of Justice appointed a special counsel to determine whether those who leaked Plame's role and her name violated a federal law barring the unauthorized disclosure of a covert operative's identity. The special counsel impaneled a federal grand jury and subpoenaed Cooper and Time Inc., demanding that we disclose our sources. When we declined to do so, a federal district judge in Washington held Cooper and us in contempt, relying on secret evidence submitted by the prosecutor. The judge ordered that Cooper be jailed for up to 18 months and that Time...