It fits their policy of opening up trade routes in an attempt to generate commerce for this poor country.

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In an article commenting on the editorial, the Southern Weekly argued that China's policy of opening up must also be reflected in a more open media.

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The statement derided what it called "wishful thinking" in Jerusalem -- a direct crack at Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's cautious policy of opening up serious land-for-peace talks with Syria over the Golan Heights.

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Now, with respect to the policy of opening up media to loved ones being brought back home, we are in the process of reviewing those policies in conversations with the Department of Defense, so I don't want to give you an answer now before I've evaluated that review and understand all the implications involved.

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Opening up ANWR, Gore continued, represented bad economic and bad environmental policy.

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Beijing may adopt other policy measures to support economic activity, such as opening up more strategic industries (eg, railway, power and telecom, and services) to private investment, providing special assistance to small and midsized enterprises and export companies, and, possibly, offering specific consumer spending subsidies.

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Still, the uncertain direction of policy matters because a split between pragmatists and ideologues may indeed be opening up in the administration.

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But the general approaches--investing in productive resources, opening up to competition and restructuring, properly promoting exports, maintaining stable and reliable public policy--attend all successes.

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