Word: dues
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Horizon: Two U.S.-trained Colombian battalions are scheduled to launch a major offensive into guerrilla-held territory in January. The U.S. is due to release further installments of its aid package shortly before Clinton leaves office, for which the President will probably once again waive the usual requirement that Colombia show progress on human rights issues. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are going nowhere, and there's a growing sentiment in Colombian politics to stop negotiations and seek a return of the one-third of the country they've handed over to the guerillas in earlier deals. That...
...due to 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...
...fast. The markets are demanding a full point of interest rate cuts from the Fed chairman in the next six months, and many expect him to begin with a surprise, pre-FOMC-meeting cut in the next few weeks, coming perhaps as soon as the next unemployment figures, due out in early January. That would only help Bush set a properly gloomy mood...
...will the flight be in 2001? Bush, selling a tax cut, and the Fed, selling confidence, will be sure to keep everybody posted as the numbers and the reports come in. We may be due for a recession - heck, we may already be in one, and not recognize it yet. And what consumers do from here on out may tell the tale...
...your precious angels or their brilliant artwork in Lego blocks. Submit a digital photo to lego.com/mosaic and Lego will send a brick-by-brick grid, similar to a needlepoint pattern, along with all the black, white and gray pieces you need to build it. A color version is due out next year...