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...trade spat risks escalating into a nasty war, especially if politicians try to make it a major campaign issue this year. Some U.S. manufacturers are demanding protectionist legislation from an Administration that seems to be listening - at least with one ear. Although he bills himself as a free trader, President Bush is finding it hard to ignore the millions of manufacturing jobs that have disappeared from states that will be pivotal in this year's election. He has unleashed U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans and U.S. Treasury boss John Snow to bark at the Chinese about exports and the cheap...
...family than in its effect on a country. Having fled his wife Vi (Melissa Jaffer) six years before, Sandy returns to Millers Point to find a changed order: son Matt (Christopher Pitman) is a union reformer who speaks of peaceful assemblies and containment, not pickets and work stoppages; commodity trader daughter Belle (Helen Dallimore) sleeps with one of the men who calls in the dockland dogs...
...year since the first cases appeared--and began returning to the Guangdong wild-animal markets every week with his black satchel full of syringes, swabs and sample vials. Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he tested to an animal trader who supplied Dongmen Market. In Guangzhou's Xinyuan Market, Yi would buy animals and haul them away in cages to the Guangzhou CDC labs, where he would gather samples before sending the creatures to be destroyed. Occasionally, when he was in a hurry, he would sedate the animal right there...
Meanwhile, in the trading pits of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, there were further signs of trouble. The Merc is a forward market that allows cattlemen and feedlot owners to hedge the price they will get for their products and offset some of the normal business risks. The traders provide the liquidity for that risk. But mad cow is anything but normal. James Brooks, floor-operations manager for the nation's largest cattle-futures trader, R.J. O'Brien, says the atmosphere is tense. "People are stressed out. Tempers are short. Nerves are shot," says Brooks. "We're seeing small fights break...
...since the first cases appeared?and began returning to the Guangdong wild animal markets every week with his black satchel bag full of syringes, swabs and sample vials. Working with the Guangzhou CDC and the Shenzhen CDC, he paid $6 for each animal he would test to an animal trader who supplied Dongmen Market. In Guangzhou's Xinyuan Market, Yi would buy animals and haul them away in cages to the Guangzhou CDC labs, where he would gather samples before sending the creatures to be destroyed. Occasionally, when he was in a hurry, he would sedate the animal right there...