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Soon we would be financing more than half the cost of demining worldwide. We began the trip at the ancient capital of Xi’an, where the Chinese put on an elaborate and beautiful welcoming ceremony. Over the previous five years, Congressional Budget Office estimates had been off by an average of 13 percent a year, though our administration’s had been closer to the mark. They thought that without more progress, Congress would reject the deal and kill China’s entry into the WTO.

the search of mine ahead of two thousand other requests that had been filed earlier, and that normally took months to process. ing the largest increase in college aid in fifty years since the GI Bill; cut spending in hundreds of other pro After thirteen months of backbreaking effort, it was all that was left for us to do. Apparently, a couple of people high up in the Bush administration had mentioned to their new counterpar