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...respect of repression of religious activities, the State Department may risk raising questions about the basic premise of U.S. "engagement" with China - that trade with the West and economic reform will have a liberalizing effect on Chinese society. Then again, even if Washington had succeeded in orchestrating a nasty wrist-slap of Beijing by a U.N. talk shop, it might not have significantly altered the prospects for passing the China trade deal on Capitol Hill. After all, while they cite concerns over human rights abuses, most congressional opponents of the trade deal are out to protect the jobs...
...policy on the use of alternative code names. In 1992, a renegade cadre of Secret Service employees, in direct contradiction of official Service policy, began to refer to our current President, Eagle, as "Elvis." Apparently, these employees particularly enjoyed saying the phrase "Elvis has left the building" into their wrist microphones. This practice, in addition to creating confusion among protective details, created a climate of mistrust between Eagle and the Service, a mistrust unfortunately exacerbated by the leaking of the lamp-throwing story...
...decided to come back on Sunday afternoon to the club's open workouts. I showed up and learned for another two hours, practicing five ways to break the human wrist and elbow. The line between club sport and art of war was greatly blurred, and I think that's what made it so empowering...
Turco at the right circle. Turco fanned on his attempt, but Dominic Moore scooped up the puck and fired a wrist shot under Hanger's glove...
...barely a minute later, Tigers' captain Darren Yopyk tallied the first and only goal of the night for the Tigers, putting Princeton up 1-0 at 8:28 with a wrist shot that went top shelf on Prestifilippo...