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If the San Jose City Council votes today to censure fellow council member Terry Gregory, Mayor Ron Gonzales is proposing to strip Gregory of most of his official duties, saying Gregory would no longer be fit to represent the city at large and no longer trustworthy with taxpayer money. Pending a vote for censure, Gonzales said Thursday that he would direct city officials to not allow any expenditures or reimbursements for travel by Gregory. And he said that next month, he would further penalize Gregory by recommending he not be assigned to any standing council committees, not serve as a...

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SACRAMENTO - Top deputies to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley enlisted government aides and used state resources to work on his political campaigns in possible violation of state law, according to interviews and documents obtained by the Mercury News. While Shelley was an assemblyman running to be California's top elections official and after the San Francisco Democrat took office last year, aides drove his campaign manager to pick up donations, used state mail to ferry campaign checks to Sacramento and used a government fax machine to transmit political fundraising material, records and interviews show. One regional director cited her political...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Commerce Secretary Don Evans vowed "tough" enforcement of U.S. trade laws on Thursday, one day before his department is due to make a preliminary decision whether to impose potentially massive import duties on wooden bedroom furniture from China. "We are going to continue to look American workers in the eye, all across this country, and tell them we are going to be tough when it comes to enforcing our trade laws and maintaining a level playing field with the rest of the world. And China is certainly right there at the top of the list," Evans said...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published on TaipeiTimes http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2003/11/26/2003077281 TVs the latest target in US-China trade dispute ECONOMICS: First it was bras, now it's televisions. Stoking fears of a trade war between the first and fifth biggest traders, the US is targeting TV imports REUTERS , WASHINGTON ANDHONG KONG Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003,Page 1 The US accused Chinese companies of dumping televisions on the US market and slapped stiff duties on the products in the latest flare-up in trade tension between the two economic giants. The US Commerce Department ruled on Monday that televisions from four Chinese firms were being sold in the US...

<p>Judge Judith Barzilay huddled late last year with a telepathic professor and a cast of mutants to ponder an age-old question: What does it mean to be human?</p> <p>In her chambers at the U.S. Court of International Trade, in New York, the judge examined Prof. X and the rest of his band of X-Men, all of them little plastic figures at the heart of a six-year tariff battle between their owner, Marvel Enterprises Inc., and the U.S. Customs Service.</p>

EU to impose duties on state-subsidized airlines of third states Brussels, March 12, IRNA -- The European Commission Tuesday proposed the imposition of duties on those air carriers from third countries which get subsidies.The duties will be calculated on the basis of the amount of aid granted to those airlines. If the third country carriers are state-controlled, duties can also be imposed to offset any unfair pricing practices. quot;In the European Union, our airlines have to 'play it by the book'whether or not they are undergoing a crisis such as the one bolstered by the events in September 2001,quot; said...