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...China's sweatshops have every reason to sweat. America buys about 19% of China's $90 billion in monthly exports. As the U.S. economy began to falter in late 2007, China's torrid export growth rate - for the last several years running at an annual rate of 20% or higher - was showing unmistakable signs of a slowdown. In February, it plummeted to just 6.5%, compared with nearly 20% growth expected by economists. Exporters suffered major disruptions from power outages and transportation delays caused by that month's heavy snowstorms, but sluggish U.S. demand was also to blame. In February...
Usually when politicians pose those kinds of either/or options to an audience, the choice is deliberately devoid of real tension. Either we move forward or fall backward, either we let the economy falter or we help it grow, either we succumb to our enemies or we defeat them - the choice is up to you, America! Obama's either/or formulation is not nearly so banal. Explicitly asking Americans to grapple with racial divisions, and then transcend them - that's a bold request. Will they comply? Obama's presidential hopes depend...
...Despite the immense pressures on filmmakers in recent days, Hekmat remains optimistic. "Cinema has deep roots in this country. We're just going through hard times. People in Iran's film industry are stronger than to falter at this," she says...
...case arises like the Cornell men’s basketball team this year – where a team is clearly better than its league peers – they should have no trouble proving their supremacy in a high-stakes tournament pool. If they were to falter in said tournament, where they really that good to begin with...
...peace” and “supporting the troops.” At the end of this provocative song, Johnson takes a step back and offers his observation that humanity has gone “beyond where we should have gone” by allowing personal relationships to falter. To make this point, Johnson returns to the original relationship between Adam and Eve in “They Do, They Don’t.” Eschewing the overtly religious connotations of such a reference, Johnson chooses instead to highlight the profound human desire for experience that...