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...What mattered was not the readiness to lift sanctions, but the continuing insistence that Saddam abide by U.N. resolutions designed to curb his military ambitions. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II were the most willing to loosen the economic noose, but they insisted Saddam accept his U.N. obligations and seemed stunned by his obstinacy. "Iraq," said influential Egyptian columnist Ibrahim Nafie, "does not want to help itself...
...Perhaps because he's unlikely to get an international force to protect Palestinians, he may accept the idea of a cease-fire. The other option is to stoke things up to the point that there?s so much military against Palestinians that his chances improve of getting an international force...
...point where reports like this don't surprise us any more. There's a point - and we've been waiting for a while - when investors just accept that this bad earnings news isn't about the company, it's about the economy. And then you start applying that to all your estimates, and reducing expectations, and bad news doesn't shock the markets anymore...
...slaughter to vaccination, because current technology doesn't properly discriminate between the presence of antibodies as a result of infection and the presence of antibodies as a result of inoculation. That could mean that Britain would lose up to $1.5 billion in lost exports to countries that won't accept vaccinated animals. Still, that may not be too heavy a loss to bear in comparison to the losses of slaughtered animals and the disruption of the countryside. After all, tourism is a far bigger earner for Britain than agriculture. So the government is contemplating inoculating animals in areas surrounding points...
...deal, which arose out of an amendment from Democrat Diane Feinstein of California, went through. When it was all over, Democrat Chris Dodd was saying he'd given as much as he could, and Republican Mitch McConnell was saying he'd gotten the minimum he could accept...