Still, he points to some hopeful signs -- including a large reduction in the child death rate in Malawi.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Ambassador Beyrle points to the recent Strategic Arms Reduction Agreement as a sign of better relations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

And she says that strong cash flow generation points to further debt reduction and a reduced interest payment burden in 2012 and beyond.

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Today the implied move is for a reduction of 35 basis points.

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Foreign multinationals from high-tax countries that open subsidiaries in the U.S. lower their effective tax rate by maybe 0.5 percentage points, with most of that reduction going to Japanese multinationals simply because they are taxed even more back in Tokyo, the study found.

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