Shares of Hutchinson Technology, a manufacturer of disk-drive suspension arms, are trading sharply higher after the company boosted its guidance on financial performance for the fiscal third quarter ending June 26.

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In January 2010 they reacted to a package of arms sales already approved by the previous American administration with thunderous threats and the suspension of high-level military-to-military contacts for a year.

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The suspension move is as a result of the IRA's refusal to decommission arms and the Ulster Unionist position that they can not continue in government with Sinn Fein without terrorists handing over weapons.

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The suspension of international financial aid starved Mr Aristide's government of cash, driving it ever further into the arms of the drug dealers.

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