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...transaction-tax cut that got the market climbing again. "The tax drop is an important signal of the government's resolve to salvage the market," says Dong Tao, chief regional economist at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. "The financial benefit investors are getting from the new policy is trivial, but the reassurance from the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Moves to Revive Stock Markets | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...cheese or Al Gore sighing or George H.W. Bush checking his watch or Michael Dukakis looking dorky in a tank. "What's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics-the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial," he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats Play Trivial Pursuit | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...These are not trivial matters; Kushner presented views on philosophy, literature and history, challenging us to connect them in a difficult way,” he said...

Author: By Madeleine A. Bennett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kushner Draws Crowd To Historical Fiction Talk | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...aspiration got lost in the Madman's House because of a long-running but apparently trivial dispute over a name. Macedonia, a former constituent republic of Yugoslavia, had expected to be invited to join NATO alongside Albania and Croatia, another successor state to Communist Yugoslavia. But Macedonia's southern neighbor Greece perceives the name "Macedonia" as a threatened territorial claim on its own northernmost province, which is also called Macedonia. Right up to the wire, some NATO delegates remained optimistic about a solution for the country, which Greece still refers to as the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, or, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO Spurns New Members | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...open letters and emails, town hall meetings, and proactive discussion with other students and faculty—to collectively voice their sentiments. The road to Ad Board reform is long, but if Sundquist can effectively influence positive reforms, then his legacy will loom far beyond the frequently trivial day-to-day concerns of the UC and profoundly impact student well-being for years to come...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Student Voice | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

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