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...Berlin Wall fell. Soon after, we intervened to expel Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. But that was apparently it. The end of history had arrived, after all, and we began spending the peace dividend and making excuses for ignoring what was happening elsewhere in the world. We were slow to act in the Balkans, we pulled out of Somalia, we stayed out of Rwanda, and we were uninterested in what was going on in Afghanistan...
...cozying up to his erstwhile nemesis, and in 2000 the Sandinistas struck a cynical deal with the Liberal Constitutionalists to control Nicaragua's Congress (which this month passed a controversial total ban on abortion) and its courts, and to freeze out the country's more moderate parties. One key dividend for Ortega: In 2001 a Sandinista judge dismissed Narvaez's sexual abuse charges against Ortega, despite the fact that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, has ruled that her case has merit. The dismissal, along with the new power Ortega...
...latest public offer; it's a more sober T-time. The prospectus will most likely focus on the company's strong balance sheet, a plan to cut 12,000 jobs and the building of a zippy new mobile-phone network; Telstra's board has promised to pay a dividend of 28? a share for the year to June 2007. On the downside, Telstra resembles an antediluvian creature, raised when fixed copper lines were king and competition on lucrative products was insignificant. It's unlikely the sale managers will have trouble moving the paper to the big institutional traders and professional...
True, but that doesn't preclude job cuts, nor does it mean that "financial engineering" is gone. When Hertz filed for an IPO in mid-July, it was up-front about why it needed the cash: to service debt that helped pay a $1 billion dividend to the outfits that had bought it less than a year before--Carlyle Group, Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity...
...Skilling, a former senior adviser in his country's Treasury, has distilled lessons from the Kiwis' experience. First, good economic policies are necessary but not sufficient. The country's market-based reforms over two decades have not brought a dividend in higher living standards. Although its leaders have talked a lot about getting into smart industries and adding value to commodities, the country's exports are still overwhelmingly land-based. Second, there's been a lack of strategic leadership. Not enough has been done to reposition the country to play to its competitive strengths by upgrading infrastructure, research and education...