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Although this year's dispute may be more intense and the final margins closer than last year's, Congress will not derail China's MFN status unless Beijing commits an act of monumental folly over the next few weeks.
But if government can't reroute the freight train in a better direction, it's hard to see how it can derail it.
In Jacob Weisberg's review of Charles Murray's What It Means to Be a Libertarian ("The Other L-Word"), he states, "But if government can't reroute the freight train in a better direction, it's hard to see how it can derail it."
Another WSJ front-page piece notes that while the current economic differential between the U.S. and the leading Asian economies will amp our trade deficit somewhat, few think the Asian crisis will derail America's current economic expansion--because the other major legs of the economy, like consumer confidence, business profits and government expenditures, are robust.
He was studiously neutral, utterly unflappable and unfailingly optimistic as bombs, killings and expulsions threatened to derail the peace process.