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...dispose of Boston's trash for $82 a ton, up 6.5% from a contract last summer. Another small but significant bellwether: Campbell's, which hasn't raised premium-soup prices in five years, just went for a 5% hike. On Wall Street, meanwhile, money managers like Doug Sheres at Rice Hall James are moving into the stocks of companies with newfound ability to charge more--without chasing away business--figuring that's where margins will be expanding...
...Niigata in 1977 at the age of 13, and allegedly committed suicide in 1994. Tokyo ran DNA tests on the remains and announced they weren't Yokota's. Public anger ran white hot: conservative politicians and Yokota's parents called for sanctions against North Korea and the government blocked rice shipments. Pyongyang angrily disputed Japan's DNA test, but nobody paid any attention...
Despite the smiles and words of praise, Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice left no doubt during her brief visit to China last weekend that the Sino-U.S. relationship will be an increasingly important - and perilous - dimension of Washington's foreign policy in years to come. The visit highlighted new tensions over Taiwan, mounting U.S. concern over China's efforts to modernize its military and impatience over its diplomatic efforts to restrain North Korea's nuclear program - and, of course, the Bush administration's promotion of democracy. ?China must embrace some form of open representative government...
...mildly, her Chinese hosts found Rice far more aggressive than they'd expected from a Secretary of State on a first visit to Beijing. But then, they may not have reckoned with the fact that the U.S. has suddenly found itself playing catch-up in responding to China's ?great leap forward? in recent years as a regional strategic power center...
...process has thus far failed to deliver an outcome acceptable to Washington; Pyongyang greeted Secretary Rice's arrival in Asia with an announcement claiming to have expanded its nuclear arsenal. But it established a kind of holding pattern in the U.S. relationship with China, during which the Bush administration focused on its war in Iraq and related matters. For China, the period represented an opportunity to consolidate its astonishing strategic gains assembled in line with what some in its foreign policy establishment call a policy of ?concealing strength and waiting for opportunities.? China has no need to exert itself...