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...company owned by Richard Dyke, a Bush fund raiser. Dyke, who briefly headed George W. Bush's 2000 fund-raising operation in Maine, had to give up that job when a controversy erupted over the fact that his firm makes assault weapons; Dyke said he wanted to avoid attracting bad publicity to the candidate...
...From January, ASDA will reprocess used frying fat to power its delivery fleet. That may be environmentally sound. But will trucks emblazoned with the charming slogan "This vehicle is powered by chicken fat" really boost ASDA's image? Free Trade On A Roll How low will countries stoop to avoid Europe's free market? Last week the E.U. started court action against Belgium, which is accused of obstructing wheelchair imports by rigging social security payments to favor Belgian manufacturers. BOTTOM LINES "Our research shows the average male in the U.S. owns one pair of jeans that are 10 years...
...Crimson will try to avoid a similiar start in what promises to be an exciting opener...
Though lawsuits have been filed in the past over such statutes—two years ago Yahoo! was sued by French groups over auction pages it hosted selling Nazi paraphernalia—this is the first indication of preemptive action taken by an American company to avoid such foreign legal troubles. Though well-intentioned, both the laws and Google’s reaction to them are deeply unsettling...
...Saddam's face and alert the international community to his non-compliance. One can only speculate on how Vice President Cheney, for example, might have greeted the news that the 72-year-old Swedish diplomat had subjected his inspectors to a program of "cultural sensitivity" training so as to avoid them unnecessarily offending the Iraqis. But Blix is unmoved by any criticism of such choices. "We are not coming to Iraq to harass or insult or humiliate them," he told the BBC last month. "That is not our purpose." At the same time, he told a British newspaper, "You have...