LONDON Cheap Air Max 97 Mens , Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Suspended UEFA president Michel Platini on Tuesday was told by FIFA that he cannot bypass its appeals process by challenging his eight-year ban directly at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Platini was banned on Monday for eight years along with former FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Platini has been hoping to overturn his ban before the Feb. 27 presidential election.?
FIFA said it wrote to Platini's lawyers on Tuesday to confirm that the UEFA leader can only go to CAS if the governing body's appeals committee first rejects his request. FIFA rules state a list of candidates must be finalized one month before the election in Zurich.??
Platini's legal team described the decision as "procedural sabotage" aimed at denying him a place in the election.??
With a new season of "Duck Dynasty" and the annual MTV Video Music Awards, two of the three most popular programs on television last week were on cable networks instead of broadcast.
The exception was the CBS miniseries "Under the Dome," which has led in the ratings for much of the summer.
The MTV awards show was clearly the most talked about program, with Miley Cyrus' risque dance routine setting social media records. The show was seen live on television Sunday by nearly 10.1 million people, sharply up from the 6.1 million viewers for last year's program.
The audience was bigger in 2010 and 2011 but slumped in the previous years, according to the Nielsen ratings company. For six years starting in 1999, the audience ranged from 9.8 million to just under 12 million.
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USA was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 2.7 million viewers in prime time. The Disney Channel had 2.4 million, TNT had 2.24 million, ESPN had 2.16 million and History had 2.1 million.
NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.2 million viewers. ABC's "World News" was a close second with 7 million, and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.8 million viewers.
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by Xinhua Writers Wang Wen, Xu Jing
NEW YORK, May 17 (Xinhua) -- For Rachel McGaw, an office manager who lives in a U.S. rust-belt town of Illinois, working for a Chinese company is more rewarding than a U.S. one.
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McGaw is just one of thousands of local workers employed at Wanxiang who would otherwise be jobless.
The corporation entered the U.S. market in 1994, the year General Motors went to China to start their operations in China.
It now has 28-plus plants, runs in more than 20 sates in the United States, and employs more than 18,000 people. Only about 10 employees are dispatched from China, and the rest are all local.
Over the years Cheap Nike Air Max , Wanxiang has acquired many firms on the brink of bankruptcy, Ni Pin, president of Wanxiang America, said, "we saved a lot of jobs."
While China and job losses are discussed as one and the same by certain parties on Capitol Hill, the reality could not be more different. Chinese companies are opening new plants and hiring people in America -- a scenario largely absent from the rhetoric of some U.S. politicians.
Chinese companies now employ more than 140,000 Americans, according to the latest report released by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) and Rhodium Group.
Already on a steep growth trajectory for the past five years Cheap Air Max 97 , Chinese investment in the United States jumped to 46 billion U.S. dollars last year, a 200-percent increase from the previous record of 15 billion dollars set in 2015, the newly updated report on China's U.S. investments showed.
In addition, the report named "New Neighbors 2017" showed that by the end of 2016, 425 out of 435 Congressional Districts hosted Chinese-owned companies.
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