Word: normalization
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...when the new day dawned in Beijing Thursday, was it filled with the promise of economic reform and trade-driven prosperity? Not quite. The House of Representatives' vote on Wednesday to extend permanent normal trading partner status to China and allow its entry into the WTO may have strengthened the hand of Beijing's economic reformers, but that may not be enough to reverse the setbacks they've suffered over the past year in the factional political battles inside China's ruling Communist party. Although the reformers grouped around Prime Minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the market-opening...
America's China policy is now officially a businesslike one. The House of Representatives ended weeks of sputtering, vote-counting and furious arm-twisting Wednesday evening with a relatively comfortable 237-197 passage of the bill granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China. Businessmen and economists rejoiced, Big Labor gnashed its teeth and tore its hair. Bill Clinton (with an assist from the Republicans, the ex-presidents and the economic good times) pulled a NAFTA encore and convinced America that free trade is still a good thing, and maybe convinced historians there'll be something good to write about...
...signed a landmark agreement that paves the way for China's entry into the World Trade Organization. China agreed to open its markets to a vast basket of U.S. goods and services, dramatically lowering tariffs on almost everything. In return, the U.S. agreed to grant China the same permanent normal trade status every other major economic power enjoys. If Congress does not approve the China trade bill, the U.S. will be the only major economic power without normal trade relations with Beijing...
...name sounds as normal as can be: Tom Green. But over the past year and a half, this MTV sensation, Pepsi pitchman and movie star apparent has slurped milk from a cow's teat, snorkeled for pennies in a shopping-mall fountain, worn an ELVIS SUCKS T shirt at Graceland, fought Monica Lewinsky with a lightsaber and gargled with mustard. Contrary to rumor, however, he did not dress as Hitler to attend a bar mitzvah. Although it is true that he humped a dead moose on camera...
Families caught in a spiral of sibling fighting may tell themselves it's a normal part of growing up; they may not realize that they can change the dynamic--and that they should...