Expect lawmakers to quickly crank up the rhetoric on China, demanding that Beijing swiftly address U.S. trade concerns. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) may throw her weight behind moves condemning China's labor record and discouraging U.S. investme Expect lawmakers to quickly crank up the rhetoric on...
As taking environmental consideration may be considered to be a bizarre activity for organization actors, efforts to present environmental activities as business-as-usual emerge. A dominating rhetoric used by environmental advocates is the metaphor of competition. Environmental adaptation is a race; rewards for the winners include more innovative product development, barriers...
The U.S. antidumping law enjoys broad political support in part because so few people understand how the law actually works. Its rhetoric of “fairness” and “level playing fields” sounds appealing, and its convoluted technical complexities prevent all but a few insiders and experts from understanding the reality that underlies that...
THE FED'S FINAL POLICY meeting before the Nov. 2 elections fueled stump-speech rhetoric on the economy. President Bush reiterated that his administration's tax cuts helped ... THE FED'S FINAL POLICY meeting before the Nov. 2 elections fueled stump-speech rhetoric on the economy. President Bush...
School-based management has increasingly become the agreed-upon model around the world for the operation of schools, particularly those in large public education systems. A critical element of the model is devolving enhanced levels of decision-making from the centre (e.g. the head office) to the schools. While the rhetoric surrounding such...
* The Federal Reserve changed its rhetoric in a January statement from the Federal Open Market Committee FOMC, which sets monetary policy. While the average lay reader may find it impossible to discern a distinction between "policy accommoda * The Federal Reserve changed its...
Cynics who insist that it is impossible to discuss genetic modification without the dialogue being laced with emotional rhetoric, personal abuse and Frankenstein-masked protestors in white suits hurling cans of red paint, were confounded in London on Cynics who insist that it is impossible to discuss...
Sir; Having participated in last year's The Grocer debate with Hugh Grant, CEO of Monsanto, I found the first paragraph of last week's Opinion calling for "more intelligence and less mallcious rhetoric" in the GM debate consistent with the Sir; Having participated in last year's...
I SHOULD note at the outset that despite being a literary-minded Catholic convert, I regard Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited with something less than uncritical affection. I tend to share Waugh's own judgment, handed down in the late 1950s when he made revisions on the book, that it "is infused with...
LEADING ARTICLE The future of two enclaves should not be allowed to spark conflict Russia's action in recognising the unilaterally declared independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was hasty, intemperate and ill-advised. It was also utterly predictable. These two regions have tried to separate themselves from...
TWO PRESUMPTIONS seem to have taken hold of all discussion of the burgeoning crisis over Russia's actions in Georgia. One is that Moscow, by sending in the tanks, has changed the rules of geopolitics and destroyed the post Cold War era of calm and co- operation, as the Foreign Secretary,...
Electing Sen. Barack Obama as president would be a disaster for our country. His promised tax increases and proposed environmental policies would kill our already weakened economy. His liberal social agenda, such as supporting taxpayer-funded and partial-birth abortions and promising to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, would further degrade...
COVER: The World After Georgia All overseas editions. Moscow Bureau Chief Owen Matthews reports that in the aftermath of the war in Ossetia, Russia achieved its goal of gaining respect. Ever since he came to power in 2000, Vladimir Putin, now prime minister, has dreamed of reversing the decline in...
As we consider the increasingly compelling evidence of wink-and- nod price-fixing of gasoline in Utah, we also should consider the substandard quality of the product being sold. "Regular" unleaded sold in Utah is rated at 85 octane -- two points below the typical, nationwide, 87 octane standard. ...
Big-power strategic alliances shift as result of Georgia conflict The ripples from a short and brutal war in the Caucasus spread out to encompass the Middle East yesterday, when the Syrian president rekindled a strategic alliance with Moscow that had been neglected since the Cold War. ...
CHICAGO AFP — Barack Obama is delving into the Clinton playbook to hammer his White House rival John McCain on the economy, turning for inspiration to the couple he dethroned to become the Democratic Party's new champion. On a pre-convention campaign swing through southern states this week, the...
WARSAW, Poland -- The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia -- a move followed swiftly by a new warning from Moscow of a possible military response. For many Poles -- whose country has...
Influential art historian with a rigorously cerebral approach to the study of painting and sculpture MICHAEL BAXANDALL was one of the greatest and most influential art historians of the second half of the 20th century, responsible for the introduction of ideas about language and rhetoric into...
ORLANDO, Florida AFP — Democrat Barack Obama Tuesday waged a counter-offensive on John McCain's stinging attacks on his patriotism, redoubling a rhetorical barrage ahead of announcing his choice of running mate. The Illinois senator addressed the annual convention here of the Veterans of Foreign Wars VFW, a day...
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