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...Rights of the Child,” produced at the 1990 World Summit for Children. Of the 193 member states, only the United States and Somalia have yet to sign this covenant to guarantee “the best possible start in life for all children, a good-quality basic education for all children [and] opportunities for all children, especially adolescents, for meaningful participation in their communities...
...Pentagon friends say Powell was initially "blown off course" by Bush's basic principle of anything-but-Clinton. "If Clinton was pushing hard for it," says J. Stapleton Roy, ambassador to China for Bush Sr., "their instinct was to pull way back." But every Administration learns?often the hard way?that foreign policy inevitably snaps back from campaign rhetoric to the well-plowed tracks of enduring interests. And it was Powell who bore the brunt of the President's education...
...Hong Kong's basic problems are well known. It is too expensive, in terms of both wages and real estate, and its government is too big. University graduates have poor skills not only in English but in Chinese, too. Corporations are hiring in the mainland, and firing in Hong Kong. Premier Zhu Rongji, a former Shanghai mayor, allowed the mainland property bubble to burst in the mid-'90s without intervention. Now, Shanghai and other Chinese cities are bursting with new businesses in part because both wages and asset prices are but a fraction of Hong Kong...
These figures do not even account for linens. For HSA to clean your linens on their “Basic Plan” (1 exchange per week) will run you $190 for the year. By doing the same cleaning on your own, you would only be set back...
...start now?” Another reason is purely financial. HSA charges much more per year than doing laundry yourself would cost. The HSA “Basic Plan” costs $375 a year, and buys you “1 Drop-off per week” (i.e. two total loads per week, one white and one color). With prices of $1 per washer load and $.75 per dryer load, and an average cost of detergent approximately $.31 per load (that’s 16 loads of Tide for $4.99 at CVS), you could do your own laundry...