Word: concern
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...begin talks with Baghdad in January. It will offer an agreement on terms for easing sanctions in return for a renewed arms inspection team. But Baghdad clearly believes it?s in a position to drive a hard bargain, since ending sanctions is the overriding concern of most of Washington's Gulf War allies. The Europeans aren't likely to let him off the hook, but the U.S. is finding its more hard-line position on sanctions a rather lonely one - and the worst-case scenario for Washington is that the sanctions regime simply collapses in the absence of agreement, which...
...that even now very few people understand the future scope or reach of a company as big and diverse as AOL Time Warner. Time Warner is in the traditional media business; AOL is an Internet company. Because the two didn't overlap, antitrust lawyers saw no need for concern. But the more people looked, the more they thought this was not just a marriage of two companies in different arenas. It was potentially game changing...
Initially, the concern was that Time Warner would give AOL preferential or exclusive access to its cable network. That would disadvantage other Internet service providers, all of whom are looking to cable as the most versatile broadband delivery alternative. Companies like Disney complained that in addition to limiting open access, the new company might restrict interactive TV (ITV) services over TW cable. Then a roster of instant-messaging companies charged that AOL was preventing any competitor's messages from penetrating AOL's proprietary IM architecture. By the fall, when AOL Time Warner had initially estimated they would close the deal...
...fear is that the AOL contingent will drive for growth too fast. There are rumors that the music or movie businesses might be sold, although Parsons denies this. And at Time Inc., the publishing division, there is concern that fledgling projects, including magazine start-ups, might be cut because the new regime is so short-term oriented. "The minute there is a case where we're being asked to cut into our core business because some other division didn't make its numbers, there's going to be trouble," says an executive. "If top people like Logan, [Jeff] Bewkes...
...count. This process should not take more than 48 hours. (It would take less than 24 hours in Canada!) Anyone objecting to it and finding legal reasons for multiple delays and a total recount is a partisan who has a vested interest in the result. If there is serious concern that the machine counts could be so bad that every ballot must be manually recounted, then all the counts by such machines are faulty. RODOLPHE MALTAIS Quebec City...