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Though immediate action towards Taiwanese independence seems unlikely, the mere prospect of such an occurrence is anathema for the mainland government. Ostensibly, Chinese communists appeal to a sense of nationalism as justification for these threats, which are becoming more or less a challenge to their brethren on Taiwan to surrender or be destroyed. Among the warnings was a statement of conditions for which Taiwan can expect retaliation amounting to annihilation. This list includes proclamation of independence, foreign intervention and, more ominously, protracted delays in progress toward reunification with the mainland...
...vendors," might have been avoided. Others, like the 33-digit project codes required by the Oracle software, could not. But improved communication between designers of the system and end users could have eased the pain of the transition and made the inconveniences seem more like a necessary evil and less like an insensitive imposition from above...
...thirty years, more or less, we will be the age our parents are now. We will have children. These bundles of joy will be the age we are now. We will rely on them to tell us the truth, no matter how painful, just as our parents rely...
Forty domestic partners recognized under the current statute have been receiving city health insurance, Triantafillou said. She said the law is less likely to be discarded when doing so would deprive people of longstanding benefits...
...Jennings says that as a result of the shuttle, she does much less walking but yet is more mobile than when she lived by the River...