11. Manuel Prutschi, executive director of the Ontario region of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said his organization would lobby provincial officials for partial financing. 12. Provincial officials said the other governments would likely follow. 13. Since then, all news conferences have been jointly held by provincial officials and tribal leaders. 14. The argument seemed to work, for Beijing quietly pressured provincial officials to kill the logging scheme. 15. The central government is cracking down on joint ventures that provincial officials used to wave through. 16. Through those connections, Microsoft executives try to convince provincial officials, local tycoons and government bureaucrats that ending piracy is in their own economic interest. 17. Yet the Riadys went to Fujian, their ancestral home and where they know provincial officials, and made it happen. 18. Provincial anti-fraud officials were cracking down on four centers producing fake brandname cigarettes in Lugang when the attack occurred. 19. Provincial officials allowed only nine reporters to make the final approach to the wreckage. 20. Provincial officials contacted by telephone refused to say if there were any deaths. |