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Passage 1 Bear Market? Some Worry That Beanies Are Ripe for a Fall Passage 2 Big Sugar Seeks Bailout, Gives Money to Help Get Way Passage 3 Vacation-Home Market Is Hot, As Prices Climb Passage 4 A Hot Potato: A Popeyes Chain Frets Over How to Handle a Minimum-pay Rise Passage 5 Microsoft Is Found to Be Predatory Monopolist Passage 6 Smog Swapping: New Rules Harness Power of Free Markets to Curb Air Pollution Passage 7 Insurance History Passage 8 Reinsurance Industry after September 11 Passage 9 Insurance ABC Passage 10 Open China﹀s Accounting Passage 11 Global Consequences of International Accounting Diversity Passage 12 The Accountant of the Future Passage 13 A Monetary Fable Passage 14 Wealth Management Forever Passage 15 Deposits Grow Despite Drop in Rates Passage 16 Know-It-Alls Passage 17 Urban Revitalization and Entrepreneurial Strategies Passage 18 Seeking Entrepreneurial Origins:Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made？ Passage 19 Wall Street:A Total Eclipse in Sight Passage 20 Staying Afloat Passage 21 Brokerage Joint Venture Partners Take to the Floor Passage 22 National Treatment Principle Passage 23 China Swiftly Becomes an Exporting Colossus，Straining Western Ties Passage 24 Import Regulation & Procedures of Mainland China Passage 25 Factoring and Forfaiting Passage 26 The Asian Financial Crisis:Causes and Effects Passage 27 Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Passage 28 Intellectual Propetry for a Wired World Passage 29 Too Many Rotten Apples Passage 30 Scandals in Corporate America Key to Exercises