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The chickens and coking coal at the heart of this week's trade spats will not change that basic fact.

Looks alone sell this machine, with its sleek swept tinted windows, curvaceous carbon fibre fuselage and streamlined wheel spats.

But Reif said the two countries have a good record of resolving trade spats before formal litigation begins.

The trade spats of 2009 will not, with luck, escalate into a full-blown trade war, but protectionist sentiment will rise.

Spats over market access have been endemic to the U. S. -China business relationship from the start.

The current run of family spats in the region make for viewing almost as compulsive as that of America's favourite dysfunctional family.

Bonobo spats are swiftly settled often with a French kiss and a quick round of sex.

Of course, China maintains that its ongoing trade and political spats with Japan have nothing to do with the tighter quotas.

One day, while taking a walk, Spats found a hat.

They are often the subject of Byzantine court spats involving bankrupt state companies and jilted Chinese banks.

At home workers are so docile that Japanese managers are often unprepared for such spats.

Spats thanked the bird for her help.

Always impeccably groomed, he liked good clothes, and as a young man sported spats and hats and fancy waistcoats .

Marital spats used to be expensive.

But rules-based spats, though contentious, will not likely result in underlying strategic conflict.

Spats asked the bird to leave.

Other countries have had similar spats with RIM.

China has had spats with Japan and India; other neighbours are also worried about China's territorial and maritime claims.

Their father-son spats, truly some of the film's best sparring, is what gives it heart.

Common problems are homesickness, financial woes, lovers' quarrels and spats with co-workers, Geng said.

Secret rendezvous, work spats, a blossoming relationship: wonder what Chuck and Serena will say?

Such difficulties have even led to high-profile public spats.

The bird brought Spats a wool scarf that she found.

Chinese bitterness over arms sales could complicate efforts to resolve such spats.

Diversified viewpoints are not presented, and issues of public concern almost inevitably lead to polarized verbal spats.

And the politics of high unemployment means trade spats are becoming a bigger risk, especially with China.

They admit their kitchen spats have more to do with power struggles than food.

People go to him to talk about arguments with spouses, money worries, work spats.

Trade spats usually serve narrow industry interests.

TRADE spats in the Balkans can be the harbingers of war.

China is especially sensitive to trade spats because it relies on exports for much of its economic growth.

He is clearly anxious not to add public spats to the eurozone's problems.

Gasoline is a solvent liquid that removes grease spats.

Friends have spats, but this seems to be more than that.

SMAP has been an unwitting victim of China-Japan diplomatic spats before.

When the bird said go right, spats wanted to go left.

Such spats are creating a paradise for short sellers.

But behind the high-profile spats, what is really going on?

"I smell something good to eat, " said Spats.

These kinds of spats, frankly, help neither country.

Nasty legal spats between tech giants may be here to stay

In the past year China has had seen a series of territorial spats with Japan over islets in the East China Sea;