Word: branch
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...stuff. China wanted a new 4,100-km oil pipeline to go from Siberia directly into its territory, to ensure control over supplies; instead, Russia is building the main line to Nakhodka on the Pacific, from where it can sell to Japan, the U.S. and Korea, with just a branch to China. Perhaps the greatest potential deal the two could strike is on manpower. Russia's male life expectancy has slumped to 58. It faces a declining population and will need millions of new workers to keep its economy chugging. China could easily supply them. But Russia, says Guan Guihai...
...When the president refuses to enforce a law on constitutional grounds without interacting with the other branches of government,” Ogletree said in his most direct condemnation of the practice, “it is not only bad public policy, but also creates a unilateral and unchecked exercise of authority in one branch of government without the interaction and consideration of the others...
...pointing out that the president’s signing statements have been concentrated in the realms of national security and foreign affairs, saying that these statements “require further probing” by the committee and “more detailed and persuasive explanations from the executive branch...
...what they see as a U.S. effort to pressure the new government to make concessions to elements that Shiite leaders see as having been the foot-soldiers of the Saddam regime. Shiite opposition appears to have forced Maliki, in the words of one British newspaper, to "trim the olive branch" being offered to the insurgents...
...rich, while the smaller one is in a funk. The gap in average incomes between the countries has widened significantly in recent years to approximately 30%, drawing Kiwis across the Tasman in large numbers. Hanging over several of New Zealand's key industries (think banking), there's a branch-office stigma. Australia's Treasurer Peter Costello is chopping at tax rates with the glee of a burly bloke in a blue singlet. Kiwi workers complain that Costello's counterpart Michael Cullen is being a scrooge on fiscal policy, stacking up Budget surpluses when there's a good case...