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5. By dropping its annual sponsorship of a resolution condemning
China at the UN Human Rights Commission, now meeting in Geneva,
the US administration acknowledges what has long been obvious.
6. Rather than come up with cash and watch expensive hardware
depreciate, companies increasingly are turning to leasing and
outsourcing as alternatives to buying.
7. Crowds gathered at two US Churches where the civil-rights leader
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, marking the US holiday
bearing his name.
8. The Angola government has insisted on the withdrawal of the
latest UN mission, accusing the UN troops of failing to disarm the
rebels.
9. For high-tech multinationals like H.P., financing has become an
important way to keep Asian sales kicking, as well as a lucrative business
believed to total roughly $20 billion a year. It is also becoming a new
form of muscle in Asia’s tougher market-place.
10. “Not that we in America do everything right or that we provide
a precise model for the working of a somewhat similar economy, but
some long-standing American economic interactions do resemble
those developing on the old Continent,” said a US economics expert.
11. In the EU, a spirit of collective irresponsibility takes hold: rather
than reforming, or even seriously thinking about the underlying
policies, each country simply seeks to get as much as it can from the
trough.
12. Amendments by the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs
Committee to a draft copyright protection directive would bar all
private copying and “make illegal such harmless practices as the home
taping on video of free TV programs for later viewing”.
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