Kantor has denied knowing about any pressure to link Diamond-Walnut's prospects overseas to its efforts to end a Teamsters strike.

CNN: By Paul Courson/

China has thus far resisted international pressure to break the link or at least to shift the level of its peg.

BBC: A Chinese steelworker

Because of an interruption in the usual link between the wage pressure that comes with very low unemployment and the resulting upward pressure on prices.

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