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Free-traders hailed it as a victory for: 1) American business, which runs a large trade deficit with China; 2) the Chinese economy, which has been stunted by limited competition; and 3) Sino-American relations, which have been tense since last spring's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
Among world leaders today the few practitioners of this form of personal rule include Syria's Hafez al-Assad ("Assad" means "lion" in Arabic) and Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi--"father of the Turkmens," the form of address favored by President Saparmurat Niyazov, the landlocked republic's opéra - bouffe strongman who has commissioned a stunted replica of the Eiffel Tower, with a revolving statue of himself on top, for the center of his capital city, Ashkhabad.
There's Pete Marino, a bigoted and emotionally stunted cop who eats and drinks too much, and Benton Wesley, an older WASP FBI profiler with whom she eventually strikes up an affair.
The forest is made up of juniper trees (sabinosas) which are incredibly and grotesquely twisted, stunted, gnarled, and, in some cases, almost bent double by the wind.
Poor soil on the flat terrain leading to foothills or on sandy mountain-ridges produces only low, stunted trees with thick leaves.