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...China policy, the administration's other major foreign policy thrust, has little to do with democracy. We may placate our concerns with the idea that trade with the West will speed China's democratization - it may contribute in the very long term, but don't hold your breath - but it's really based on the economic self-interest of both countries. In fact, many sober foreign policy heads recognize that the convulsive social upheaval that will accompany the epic transformation from socialism to capitalism currently under way in China that a strong (yes, even authoritarian) state might be necessary...
...started ringing inside Bill Daley's Washington home. Roused from his sleep, the Commerce Secretary groped for the receiver and heard Al Gore on the line. Soon Gore was asking Daley to leave Bill Clinton's Cabinet and take over as chairman of Gore's campaign. After a deep breath, Daley said he'd like to discuss the matter over a cup of coffee...
...CNBC.com points out that the 37% nose dive in the NASDAQ index from its March 10 high to its May 23 low did not appear to scare away much foreign investment--at least not enough to make any difference in the dollar's price. "I was holding my breath on that one," says Kudlow...
...know, six or eight weeks. He'd been traveling and so forth. And then I told him that I thought that he was the right person to take over as chairman and that I'd like him to do it. And he took a deep breath and he said, well, I'd like to talk with you about it over a cup of coffee. I said, 'OK, I'll hold the phone; go make some coffee.' And then there was a long silence, not too long, and then he laughed and he said, 'You mean you want to talk...
...still having his secretary print out his e-mail must be planning to win the lottery.) Consequently, says Challenger, boomers who haven't reached, and won't reach, the top "are being squeezed from below as well." It's a squeeze that has brought on a psychic shortness of breath: the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce, comparing the attitudes of men and women ages 46 to 51 with a similar cadre studied in 1977, exposed the hollowness and the fear creeping up on the leading-edge boomers: in the original survey more than half felt it highly unlikely...