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...parliamentary majority meant the Howard government did not lack the appetite for transformation or a fight. Inheriting a fiscal mess, the new government's fixers appeared to relish the task of taking money away from universities, welfare recipients and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Taxpayers' assets were passed on for sale to merchant bankers, government debt was shredded, and a shareholder democracy was born. When Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith launched an assault on the waterfront unions, there was a certain bloodlust. In pursuing a new tax system, with its 10% goods and services tax, a diligent and obstinate Treasurer Peter...
...firm owned by Dubai's government has purchased the rights to operate seaports in six major American cities, a move the White House approved without telling Congress. Even worse, everyone found out about the sale from that Texas quail-hunt rancher lady." --JON STEWART...
DISSOLVED. THAILAND'S PARLIAMENT, by King Bhumibol Adulyadej, at the request of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra; in order to call new elections; in Bangkok. While Thaksin's opponents have railed against his family's tax-free $1.9 billion windfall from the sale of Shin Corp., the telecom giant he founded, the Prime Minister still enjoys strong support among rural Thais. Elections for a new House of Representatives will take place on April...
...into the Coop these days and all you see are books with titles like (I am not making this up): “Sell Yourself!: Master the Job Interview Process.” As a twenty-year-old college student, I had no idea that I was up for sale. Do I really have to be overly concerned with my future career when I’m still not old enough to drink legally? I thought college was a place where I would be exposed to a wide range of opportunities and be able to try many different things...
...nothing else, both sides managed to save face after months of accusations and mounting acrimony. Just 10 days before the truce, Icahn, at a glitzy press conference in New York City, had defiantly called Parsons out, accusing him, among other things, of selling Warner Music at a fire-sale price and being too slow to find a growth plan for the AOL unit. Time Warner execs insisted that their strategies with Warner Music and AOL were appropriate under the circumstances...