Word: wolfe
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...Earlier this year it began allowing foreign companies to buy into state-owned production companies, a step many see as a precursor to opening its television industry more widely. "The government wants to know if its system is robust enough to exert necessary controls" on foreign participation, says David Wolf, managing director for technology and finance at the Beijing office of international public relations agency Burson-Marsteller...
...cars be 95% recyclable. Ford also complained that some directives cancel each other out - explaining that pedestrian safety rules will add weight to cars, while fuel efficiency directives anticipate lighter cars. Sighed a Ford spokesman: "We're piggy in the middle." But - to mix animal metaphors - is Ford crying wolf? "Think of the discussions in the late '80s about how the cost of controlling emissions would make cars more expensive," says Garel Rhys, head of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School . "The figures that were bandied around turned out to be nothing of the sort." Rhys...
...celebration at City Hall Sunday night, shortly before the first couples were allowed to file for marriage licenses, State Rep. Alice K. Wolf, D-Cambridge, a vocal opponent of the proposed amendment, told reporters she was optimistic that it would not pass...
...There’s a good shot at having it voted down next year,” said Wolf, who will serve as a witness at a same-sex marriage later this week...
Even in this environment, some changes are certain, particularly at the FBI. House Republican Wolf is preparing legislation that would create what he calls a "service within the service" at the FBI to focus on intelligence gathering, not law enforcement. It would be staffed with its own corps of spies recruited from college campuses, the CIA and other agencies. According to his allies in Congress, Mueller is leaning toward this idea himself. Meanwhile, support is growing on the Hill for a plan drafted by two-time National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft that would create a new intelligence czar with budget...