Word: dealing
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...violence at the Mount stunned Israelis, whose troops faced widespread gunfire from Palestinian police and militia. Upon hearing the calls of their imams to defend the sacred compound, Israel's Arab citizens answered with rioting throughout the Galilee. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tried to broker a deal but got only a partial cease-fire that few observed...
...question of how to unseat tyrants gets to the heart of one of the thorniest foreign policy questions: How do you deal with states that refuse to play by the rules that govern everyone else? Inside the State Department, a dedicated group of "democracy first" proponents argue that the lesson of Serbia is clear: encourage democracy, and you grease the bad guy's fall. Serbia's transformation is encouraging. And though one election does not a democracy make, last week's moving events will provide a powerful argument for those like Madeleine Albright and others in the Clinton Administration...
...shake up the system. Last month word leaked that he and Fred Smith, founder and CEO of Federal Express, were putting the finishing touches on a broad alliance--a striking move, since Smith has long been an outspoken critic of the USPS Although details are still sketchy, the deal would reportedly give the government carrier access to the air network of the company, which is based in Memphis, Tenn. In return, the blue-uniformed postal workers would pick FedEx packages up from your door and deliver them right to your door. In effect, that would hand FedEx the Postal Service...
...Memphis-based powerhouse. Besides gaining access to that "last mile" to Aunt Edna's mailbox, FedEx could leverage the arrangement by planting drop-off boxes in post-office lobbies. Even if government regulators limit the combination on antitrust grounds, FedEx is steaming ahead with other joint ventures, including a deal with the French postal agency La Poste. Fred Smith has already proved FedEx's global fortitude. Most analysts see his domestic strategy as a shrewd way to position his 29-year-old company for what many believe will be the USPS's inevitable dissolution...
...everybody likes the idea of someone else cashing in on their free computing cycles. "If somebody's making a dollar off my machine," notes David McNett, president of Distributed.net "I'd damn well want to be compensated for it." To sweeten the deal, many community computing start-ups let participants donate a portion of their computational cycles to pet biomedical charities. People who sign up with the San Diego-based firm Entropia, for instance, can allot part of their computer's time to the FightAIDS@home project, which uses distributed computing to help Arthur Olson's lab at the Scripps...