It is slap-bang next to the world's biggest and fastest-growing market for most minerals.
But they miss the most important truths that the Olmert-Rice slap-down brought to the surface.
The tussle in America between a cautious Treasury and slap-happy senators is mirrored by subtle divisions in China.
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Back at the office, I'm poring over a map, trying to figure out where the slap-down may have occurred.
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The slap-on tax amounts to 10 cents a share for Bank of America.
Looking to the future, will Mr. Kerridge remain in his comfortable pub, slap-bang next to the road through town?
Spaniards differ over the slap-up wedding hosted last week by their prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, but the event certainly set tongues wagging.
Panthers keeper Kevin St Pierre had seen the heavy slap-shot from the Giants captain all the way but somehow it crept in the corner.
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It apparently began with an argument that escalated into the slap-around.
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Slap-on-the-wrist fines notwithstanding, no one is agitating for better privacy laws.
The first three cases (two other sets of European mergers besides Tetra Laval-Sibel) coming up before the Luxembourg court each resulted in scathing slap-downs of the Competition Commission.
In other words, this is not the kind of thing that will just go away with a slap-on-the-wrist civil fine where Goldman does not admit or deny wrongdoing.
The move follows hard on the heels of attempts at the Karachi Stock Exchange - the country's premier share market - to slap down "wildcat" speculative trading in favour of more long-term investment.
As leaked to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this morning, Wall Street and Washington power broker Steven Rattner appears on the verge of walking away from a multi-million bribery scandal with a wrist-slap.
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To do that, Capellas says Compaq will slap its well-known brand name on a wide range of products: from portable organizers to the Himalaya servers that power AOL's e-mail system to products still in development that will blur the lines between computers and electronic appliances like cell phones and stereos.
Later on in the series will come S.mouse, a rap artist from Los Angeles and the creative genius behind the most successful hip-hop single of all time, Slap My Elbow, and other US-based characters.
He twice stopped defenseman Mark Streit with spectacular glove saves and smothered a Kyle Okposo point-blank slap shot early in the third.
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Slap down multiple cool-running cores on a single slice of silicon.
The mooted device is likened to a "slap wrap" - a thin strip of metal covered in fabric which snapped around the user's wrist to form a bracelet.
In recent weeks, as Moody's has neared its decisions, big banks have been lobbying the ratings agency not to slap them with multi-notch downgrades, according to people familiar with the matter.
Lundqvist appeared to have a good view of the 50-foot slap shot from just in front of the middle of the blue line and got a piece of the puck, but it trickled by him.
Unfortunately, it would be par for the Bush Administration's course if, having now reluctantly delivered this long-overdue slap on the wrist, the Secretary of State were to be dispatched to Belgrade to smooth ruffled Serbian feathers.
And for the rest of the world to suggest that how we manage the polar bear is not right is a slap in the face - but the decision that was made today shows we are doing the right thing.
Matt Reynold's poked in the opener from close range and a rocket shot from Konstantin Kalmikov was too strong for the Giants netminder Stevie Lyle but before the first interval Colin Shields reduced the arrears with a well-placed slap shot.
Sensors at the midway point of the table detect the angle, speed, and trajectory of the not-exactly-oncoming puck, and instructs the mechanism how and where to fire the disc -- you slap it back, and the same sequence happens on your compadre's end.
And the little they do know of Mr Hollande - like that promise to slap a 75% tax rate on the country's top earners - has not left them very impressed.
The stark, monumental-looking set for "Dialogues, " which was designed by David Reppa, was a slap in the face to old-fashioned operagoers who preferred big, fancy sets with imitation trees.
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While RIM won't comment--despite a very public slap by Jobs Thursday (see: " The iPhone Goes Corporate")--analysts say Apple's pricey handsets still lack the kind of tight integration with applications such as Lotus Notes that RIM has mastered.
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