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...vast majority of party members and officials expressed disdain for Lienemann's accusations and stressed the urgency of restoring unity and cohesion. But successive speakers also made it evident that the Socialist Party?like the French left in general?is split between market-friendly "modernizers," such as former Economy Ministers Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius, and harder leftists like former Employment Minister Martine Aubry and party heavyweight Henri Emmanuelli...
...consensus arose within the 13- member advisory committee, Hall said, and the faculty remain deeply split on this and other questions...
...course, share price alone doesn't tell the whole story. Tom Saberhagen, an analyst for Aegis Value Fund in Arlington, Va., says a company can control, to some extent, the price range of its shares by executing a "reverse split." Technology companies in particular are using reverse splits--reducing the number of shares at the same market value so each share is worth more--to keep their share prices above $1. Any lower, and they will get kicked off the major exchanges. Instead of share prices, Saberhagen compares price per share against book value per share (assets minus liabilities). Using...
...those conditions is a fresh mandate from the U.N. Security Council. Current U.N. resolutions don't authorize regime change, so many E.U. leaders believe a new ruling is needed to ensure that an eventual attack would comply with international law. To prevent Saddam from using U.N. involvement to split allies or play for time, Jacques Beltran of the French Institute of Foreign Relations in Paris suggests that the U.S. and the E.U. set a deadline for resumed inspections as well as ground rules - and a full range of potential punitive actions - to carry them out. "The combination of the American...
Isolating Riyadh, though, carries risks. Western diplomats warn that the al-Saud clan, which has ruled the kingdom for the past century, is the only Western-leaning institution left in a fundamentalist state that is growing younger, poorer and more radical. "Let's say we decided to split sheets with the Saudis. What would replace them would not be a pretty sight," says a U.S. diplomat. "You could see another Taliban. There's no moderate group that could come in and take over...