Wen Jiabao on market tolerance

...we also hope you will lift restrictions on exports to China. I can give you an example. A few years ago, China placed an order for a Loral satellite and we paid a deposit of more than $150 million. However, someone in the U.S. did not want to see a Chinese rocket being used to launch the Loral

Breakdown and deployment of US forces in Iraq

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat.htm Break down and deployment of US forces in Iraq This is a best available listing of US forces deployed to the Central Command AOR for Southwest Asia and for US forces deployed to European Command's locations in Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria.

new frontiers of marketing

STEVE LOPEZ / Los Angeles TIMES. Menage a Trois La La La La Steve Lopez November 23, 2003 Kathie McGinn found a shirt for her son at the Abercrombie Fitch store in the Grove shopping center and took it to the checkout counter. That's when she saw the AF Christmas catalog. It

Forces of production

Fast Company Issue 77 | December 2003 The Wal-Mart You Don't Know The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment

Japan/US: Steel

The Japan Times: Nov. 23, 2003 Japan to reply in kind to U.S. steel curbs 30% HIKE IN IMPORT TARIFFS Japan will raise tariffs on U.S. steel products and gasoline by 30 percent as a retaliatory measure if the United States does not retract its steel import curbs, which the World Trade

Violence in the service of empire

Bush's speech in Whitehall last week (thanks for posting) was seen in Britain as a sophisticated working of his audience. Apart from one Freudian slip (see below) he was fluent in addressing the issues and dilemmas that have split the European powers over Iraq. One problem for Blair has been that

Re: Forces of production

This Walmart article is excellent. So was the Business Week piece I posted a couple of weeks ago. Both were useful in showing the wide range of effects that follow from a simple commondity transaction. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel.

Re: Forces of production: more

I should have addred that Walmart supposedly accounts for a good portion of the recent increase in measured productivity in the US. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Michael Jackson: An ode to Joe Jackson - Song to My Father.

an intro quickly written for friend) Michael Jackson: An ode to Joe Jackson - "Song to My Father." "If there was every a manthat was generousand graciousand good . . . ..that was my dad... the man." "Song For My Father" with Leon Thomas on vocals: original composition by Horace Silvers and the

Turkey bombings: an analysis

Peace Iniative/Turkey Press Release - 5 New York City, USA November 24, 2003 WE DON'T HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN TERRORISTS! During the past week, four explosions in Istanbul have caused the deaths of more than 50 people, have wounded hundreds and incited a wave of panic amongst the citizens

Creative anti-terrorism spending of tax dollars

Great article in the Washington Post today - see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6311-2003Nov22.html

Goodbye, and thanks for the fish

Saturday 22 November 2003, 1:40 Makka Time, 22:40 GMT Originally bred to help detect toxins, a little tropical fish that glows fluorescent red is set to be become the world's first genetically engineered pet. The Texas-based Yorktown Technologies has licensed to sell as pets the zebra fish,