Word: statuses
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...that culture? It is a culture that breeds hypocrisy. It is a culture that reduces politics to squabbles between ethnic and gendered interests and forces an equation between true commitment and naivete. Is the feminist really at fault--as I have implied--for patronizing an organization that denies equal status to women? Should not political commitment involve sacrifice in one's daily life? But where is the appropriate sacrifice too large? Perhaps at Harvard, where I have already lamented there are few neutral public spaces where students can go? Our political life is defined by the comically inconsistent private behavior...
Just as President Bill Clinton launches a final effort to convince Congress that China deserves permanent normal trade status, there are still plenty of critics who see the communist goliath variously as a strategic threat to the U.S., a vast sweatshop economy swallowing up American jobs and a serial abuser of human rights. Even free-trading multinational corporations experience enormous frustrations trying to do business in China. Countless joint ventures have soured on disagreements between the partners, contract violations and unrealistic expectations of quick profits. A survey last year by management consultants AT Kearney found that 60% of all foreign...
...amazement, not least the GM engineers, the first car rolled off the line on Dec. 17, 1998. "The government helped us enormously with infrastructure," says Chen Hong, president of SGM. In 1998 SGM was designated Shanghai's No. 1 economic project--a privileged, pull-out-all-the-stops status that went to the city's new airport the following year. Chen concedes this is not how most foreign companies are treated. "Without this priority, it would have been very difficult to have built it in 23 months...
...Bill have a historic battle on their hands, one neither of them can win alone. They are working together because both men want Congress to pass a landmark bill next week that will guarantee China permanent normal trade relations. Both men view permanent trade status as a crucial element in U.S. global economic and security interests. Most members of the Senate concur. The problem is that both parties in the 435-seat House of Representatives are deeply divided over China. Republicans are suspicious of Beijing, which many see as the ultimate threat to U.S. national security. Democrats, influenced...
...emergency meeting April 13, the TCUJ revoked TCF's status as an official student group, effectively stripping the group of its rights to funding, campus classrooms and the Tufts name...