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...industries had already begun to mate: faced with the crumbling of their local telephone monopolies, the cash- rich Baby Bells had been making love, not war, with their cable-TV rivals. Just last week Atlanta-based Bell South agreed to pay $250 million for a 22.5% stake in Prime Management, a Las Vegas cable company. In May, U.S. West put up $2.5 billion for a 25% share of Time Warner Entertainment, a unit of Time Warner that owns, among other things, cable outlets in 36 states. Southwestern Bell spent $650 million in February for just two suburban cable systems...
...bold plan, almost to the point of folly. But at the very least, it's one that certainly matches the scale of his rhetoric. "The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk," he said. "The future of human civilization is at stake...
What's at stake is billions of dollars in lost tax revenue. According to the Senate, experts estimate that the total loss to the Treasury from offshore tax evasion could be as high as $100 billion a year, including $40 billion to $70 billion from individuals and some $30 billion from corporations. Of course, there are legitimate reasons to have offshore accounts. "The super-rich aren't born into the category of being tax evaders," points out John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network. In the coming months, however, we're likely to find out a lot more about...
...nominations would likely halt that rightward slide. But Kendall notes that while Republicans traditionally place a high value on the fate of the Court when voting for Presidents, Democratic voters are less likely to do the same. "I don't think progressives in general understand how much is at stake in the Court," he says. "They're used to the Court coming out generally in their favor, and they don't realize how big a deal it is if the Court starts radically limiting access to ensure environmental protections...
...people's health. Given enough time, environmental groups would almost certainly sue to reverse the EPA's ruling, but with the Bush Administration in its last six months, that decision will be handed off to the next Administration. Which is just another reminder of how much will be at stake for the environment - for both parties - when voters go to the polls...