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...that gives the country a guaranteed market for its garments in the U.S. Some experts fear that once the trade agreement ends, cheaper Chinese garments will eat away a large part of Bangladesh's export market and up to a third of Bangladesh's textile factories might have to shut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Of Disgrace | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

Sophomore midfielder Jake Samuelson created his own opportunity and finished with 8:14 remaining in the fourth to close the gap to two. But Denver midfielder Jeff Biggs shut the door on the comeback bid, as he scored to push the Pioneer advantage back to three with just under seven minutes remaining...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: M. Lacrosse Falls Twice Over Break | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...Pistone, his next project has sent old fed-heads shaking. Called The Good Guys, it's a novel about an FBI agent and a mafioso, both looking for the same man. Pistone's co-author: Bill Bonanno, onetime boss of the family that Pistone's testimony nearly shut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Don | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...because of their reform programs has for more than a year now been growling its displeasure over Raffarin's belt-tightening regime. Last May public sector workers - including transport workers, civil servants and teachers - took to the streets to protest pension reforms, and during the summer performing-arts workers shut down arts festivals in a battle over unemployment benefits that's still going on. Thousands of scientists and researchers have marched against reduced funding, and last week some 3,500 firefighters staged a demo to dramatize their call for the right to retire at 50. And now the angry hordes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Reforms Please, We're French | 3/28/2004 | See Source »

Open Windows, Shut the Door After five years in the ring with Microsoft, E.U. competition regulators finally landed a punch against the software heavyweight last week. Brussels levied a record €497 million fine against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, granting rivals access to information on its Windows operating system and ordering the firm to offer a second version stripped of its proprietary Media Player. Microsoft is appealing - a process that could take up to five years - but even if the new rules kick in as early as this summer, the firm will be allowed to sell the Media Player version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Watch | 3/28/2004 | See Source »

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