Word: supportive
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...unpredictable, dangerous story, Rees notes, and "I've been lucky to have the great support of our Palestinian correspondent, JAMIL HAMAD, and military affairs reporter AHARON KLEIN, as well as advice from my predecessor, LISA BEYER, who is now a senior writer in New York." Still, the story is particularly sad for a correspondent in a region where historic steps on the path to peace have been taken in recent years. "I've been touched by the deep sense of disappointment--almost depression--in my Israeli and Palestinian friends," says Rees. "Their hopes, built over the past seven years, have...
What happened? Yasser Arafat refused. He refused even to make a counteroffer. Then, finding no international support for his intransigence, he decided to reshuffle the deck: start a war that might give him the upper hand--a war that would bring enough international pressure on Israel to enable him to dictate terms...
People seem to have lost sight of the bottom line: musicians incur costs to record CDs, and many people support families with less-than-glamorous jobs to put these albums out. You can't convince me that a college student who is able to download a whole CD for free on his computer is still going to run out and purchase that recording. Fanning is a punk who is making money off other people's labor. TRACY PASEMAN Issaquah, Wash...
...Authority, with a staff of 170, can't follow up on every complaint it receives, and Tesauro wields considerable power in choosing where the agency will focus its energy. He has decided to take on high- profile cases that offer a big payoff in public support. In July the Authority opened an investigation into the National Association of Pharmacy Owners for prohibiting individual pharmacies from offering discounts on products whose prices are not regulated. "The monopoly of the pharmacies, above all for items that are not medicine, is somewhat medieval," Tesauro says...
...February. "The company can't resume its rocket-like trajectory." CyberWorks has declined to comment on its business strategy, but Li, the son of shipping and real estate billionaire Li Ka-Shing, says the fact that Cable & Wireless' shares were initially snapped up by buyers showed "confidence in and support for our business plans and our overall strategy...