Jeffrey Schott
Jeffrey Schott
china handled last learned lesson national offshore oil
It hasn't been handled very well. I would have thought the administration would have learned a lesson from the China National Offshore Oil Corp. of last year.
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Free trade is no panacea -- for Colombia to fully benefit from this deal it will need to accompany the agreement with sound economic policies that boost competitiveness.
likely record remain
This record will likely remain unblemished in 2006.
bring far home
So far so good, but he's got to bring home the bacon, and he's got a long way to go to do that.
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In the eight months he's been in office, he certainly has done a tremendous amount of work. He has mastered a very complex brief in an extraordinarily short period of time.