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Rather, their motives are a mix of self-interest, cynicism and pessimism


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European leaders are not naive about their latest deal with China
Politically, China sees its deal with Europe as an early victory o

Brown: 'Halting WHO funding is act of self-harm by US'

US President Donald Trump must be persuaded to back the World Health Organisation (WHO) by his colleagues in the G20, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown has said.

He told Hardtalk's Stephen Sackur that the president's decision to withdraw funding from the organisation was an act of self-harm by the US.

Mr Brown said: "To deal with this locally in any country, we have got to act globally. If the World Health Organisation did not exist, it would have to be created.

“It is our duty to try to persuade the Americans that this solidarity is actually in the self-interest."

  Pope Francis warns of 'catastrophic' consequences if special interests derail the Paris climate talks next week.

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Pontiff makes plea for deal at climate change summit

The head of the Roman Catholic Church has called on governments to use…

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 Manning an Egotist, Prosecutors Say at Close of Leaks Trial

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

The prosecution has argued that Pfc. Bradley Manning is a traitor for giving information to WikiLeaks , but his lawyers say he is a principled protester who wanted to help society.

 

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  School Lunch Proposals Set Off a Dispute

By RON NIXON

A proposal to cut back on potatoes and sodium in the federal school lunch program is being met by fierce resistance from agricultural and food service interests. 

The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent

By CHRYSTIA FREELAND

America’s superrich are eliminating the social mobility that creates wealth.

The wheels will grind on: FATF will evaluate progress (more rigorously, it says) and name and shame laggards. The European Union will shortly start work on a new anti-money-laundering directive, its fourth and toughest to date. But for the time being, self-interest has trumped efforts to clean up company law.

Metropolitan Police Commander Ali Dizaei has been sentenced to four years for assaulting and falsely arresting a man in a dispute over £600.

Southwark Crown Court was told Waad Al-Baghdadi was arrested by Dizaei in a row over work on the officer's website.
Dizaei, 47, was convicted of both misconduct in a public office and perverting the course of justice.

Prosecutor Peter Wright QC said he was guilty of a "wholesale abuse of power" motivated by self-interest and pride.


Producer Price Index (PPI)　生產者物價指數

「生產者物價指數」是用來衡量生產者在生產過程中，所需採購品的物價狀況；因而這項指數包括了原料，半成品和最終產品等（美國約採3000種東西）三個生產階段的物價資訊。（過去或稱躉售物價指數wholesale price index WPI）它是消費者物價指數(CPI：以消費者的立場衡量財貨及勞務的價格)之先聲。

將食物及能源去除後的，稱為「核心PPI」（corePPI）指數，以正確判斷物價的真正走勢---這是由於食物及能源價格一向受到季節及供需的影響，波動劇烈。

理論上來說，生產過程中所面臨的物價波動將反映至最終產品的價格上，因此觀察PPI的變動情形將有助於預測未來物價的變化狀況，因此這項指標受到市場重視。

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"中國企業的利潤率已經穩定在了上升之後的水平上﹐而生產價格指數(PPI)增速高於消費價格指數(CPI

)增速的局面並沒有導致利潤收縮。如果我們以淨利潤總額對銷售額的比率來表示中國企業的平均利潤率﹐那麼可以看到﹐2003年以來中國企業的利潤率開始上升。而近年來雖然原材料成本大增﹐但利潤率仍處於週期高位。從經驗性研究來看﹐企業利潤率和PPI-CPI增速差額之間存在明顯的正相關關係﹐這與許多人認為的情況恰恰相反﹐而且下游產業同樣存在這種正相關關係。如果說企業利潤率和PPI-CPI增速差額之間確實存在著經驗性因果關係﹐那麼從數據來看﹐事實是PPI增速的加快往往意味著利潤增速的上升。" (梁紅)

Fleet Street (London) was for centuries the home of the newspaper industry and the name is still used to describe the national press. It ran from the Fleet river, a noisome ditch, to the Strand—strategically between the city and the court. In the 1980s there was a wholesale exodus of newspapers to less-congested sites elsewhere.

wholesale

n.

The sale of goods in large quantities, as for resale by a retailer.
adj.

1. Of, relating to, or engaged in the sale of goods in large quantities for resale: a wholesale produce market; wholesale goods; wholesale prices.
2. Made or accomplished extensively and indiscriminately; blanket: wholesale destruction.

adv.

1. In large bulk or quantity.
2. Extensively; indiscriminately.

v., -saled, -sal·ing, -sales. v.tr.
To sell in large quantities for resale.
v.intr.

1. To engage in wholesale selling.
2. To be sold wholesale.

wholesaler whole'sal'er n.

sélf-ínterest[sélf-ínterest]

[名][U]

1 利己主義, 利己心.

2 私利, 私欲.

sélf-ínterest・ed

[形]自己本位の.

みずぎ【水着】

a bathing [swimming] suit, a swimsuit; 〔男子用パンツ〕((a pair of)) swimming trunks

彼女は水着姿で現れた
She appeared in a 「bathing suit [swimsuit].

水着美人
a bathing beauty

interest

8 [U]勢力, 支配［影響］力

gain a controlling interest
支配権を握る

establish an interest in a group
集団の中で勢力をはる

through one's ［a person's］ interest in the firm
その会社での地位を利用して［コネによって］.