Equally, efforts to get Russia to join the World Trade Organisation should be stepped up, as its rules would usefully trammel the atavistic impulse within the regime to slide towards protectionism.

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It shows that America is willing to shield its textile workers from foreign competition even after the mesh of quotas that currently trammel the global textile industry is undone next year.

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Liberty Property, Jones Lang LaSalle, Trammel Crow and other large real estate firms have signed up, giving Urban Media access to 900 million square feet of office space and 4.5 million workers.

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"So much talk on Twitter of Steve Jobs, but Twitter HQ has been eerily quiet the past few hours save the clicking of keyboards he tailored, " tweeted Mark Trammel, a Twitter designer.

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Liberty Property, Jones Lang LaSalle, Trammel Crow and other large real estate firms have signed up, giving Urban Media access to over 80 million square meters of office space and 4.5 million workers.

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