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Wherever there is sincerity, though, hypocrisy generally tags along. For a warmup, a brief list of the Year's Best Euphemisms for Recession...
Czechoslovakia's brief ethnic feud also illustrated the hair-trigger sensitivities that vex Eastern Europe. Slovaks, who account for a third of the nation's 15 million people, have long nursed a sense of victimization. Wary of Czech domination, Slovak leaders hinted at secession unless Prague agreed to extensive decentralization of core institutions, from the national bank to oil pipelines to management of minority affairs...
...last Monday, Bennett was saying his earlier remarks had been "overinterpreted." White House aides tried to revise recent history by implying that Bennett had overstated his brief. No decision had been made about politicking on quotas in the future, they maintained. Bennett's withdrawal from the chairmanship was not immediately related to the issue. The main cause was the belated realization by Bennett and White House counsel Boyden Gray that conflicts of interest would be a far more serious problem than earlier thought...
Instead, Administration attorneys have deflected the courts' attention by arguing, as Gerson did last week, that war powers are a "political question" and thus beyond judicial review. The law professors' brief rejected that view, although Judge Greene's questions indicated that the issue bothers...
Though many expected the company to throw in the towel, AT&T stunned Wall Street last week by proposing the biggest acquisition in the brief history of the computer industry, offering to buy Dayton-based computer maker NCR for $6 billion. When NCR rejected the initial, friendly offer, its suitor shocked the business world once more by launching a hostile takeover attempt. In a face- to-face showdown with AT&T's board members in New York City, NCR management vowed to resist. But industry analysts generally believe that the big telecommunications firm will ultimately prevail, strengthening...