This suggests that businesses do expect trade activity to improve further on a buoyant 2005.

A similar seasonal pattern occurred in 2004 but then the TAI retracted only four index points from the November index compared to six points in 2005.

Export volumes and manufacturing output are playing more important roles in affecting the business mood.

This convention is actually about trade clearly exceeds the mandate of UNESCO, ... deeply flawed and fundamentally incompatible with (the agency's) obligation to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image.

The status quo. Both countries have grossly underestimated rates of infection, both have an increasing sex trade, and both have done nothing to stop the spread of AIDS. These are recipes for disaster.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.