Even if Taipei remains defiant, Beijing should stop short of unsheathing the PLA sword.
Playboy Enterprises (nyse: PLA - news - people ) is struggling.
Gruber brought PLA samples to more than a dozen plastics makers, including DuPont, Monsanto and BASF.
Yes, Beijing was able to deploy sizable numbers of capable PLA troops to the quake scenes.
Mr. CHENG: The PLA understands that, militarily speaking, space is the new high ground.
By 2010, the PLA Navy could have about 60 very modern to moderately capable submarines.
The PLA is still the largest army in the world, with an active force of 2.3m.
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Born in 1940, he joined the PLA in 1955 and began publicly exhibiting his artwork in 1958.
These changes are intended to boost morale in the 2.3-million-strong PLA, which remains the world's largest standing army.
While waiting for Caroline to return from school, Seal Pla said her daughter taught her a powerful lesson.
After Seal and George Pla were told the bad news, they immediately set out to challenge the decision.
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The PLA supports the plan to get more people on the river but insists that safety is paramount.
There are no future opportunities for Pla or any female to play football beyond this point in her life.
Cordoba is operated by George Pla, a California businessman and longtime Democratic fund-raiser.
The PLA is developing a road-mobile ICBM and it is trying to acquire Russian and Ukrainian ballistic missile technology.
After 18 months studying Cargill's PLA, Dow signed on as a 50-50 partner.
The PLA has also issued instructions for training to focus on real combat.
The PLA's space networks and ground surveillance systems will help target the PLA's new revolutionary long-range anti-ship ballistic missiles.
"Cosco is the merchant marine arm of the PLA Navy, " Mr. Timperlake said.
The next generation of the Cube can also use ABS and PLA interchangeably.
The Archdiocese conceded and permitted Pla to finish the season, but said after that no more CYO football for her.
ConAgra and DuPont tried a PLA venture in the mid-1990s, but failed to get the biochemistry right in early tries.
Xiong Guangkai, the PLA's deputy chief of staff who met with Defense Secretary William Cohen the week before the vote.
Maybe that was because no one that knew Pla or her family had ever thought anything unusual of her playing.
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According to Patrice Pla, ACSA's marketing manager, SeaExplorer's lack of wings reduces the chance of its getting tangled in nets.
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The sale includes several objects that conjure up the Playboy (nyse: PLA - news - people ) mystique.
"The PLA Air Force has deployed several types of unmanned aerial vehicles for both reconnaissance and combat purposes, " the report said.
As head of the PLA's intelligence services, General Xiong is arguably one of the most dangerous men in the Chinese hierarchy.
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