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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...early six-touchdown deficit cemented Cornell's fate, however, as even the comeback kids from Ithaca could not pull off the impossible. Brown continued their offensive onslaught in the second half, as Webber added two more touchdown passes in the third quarter to extend the lead...
...these seems plausible, then perhaps the presidential race provides the answer. At the second presidential debate in Winston-Salem, N. C. Texas Gov. George W. Bush answered a question on whether the U.S. should share some of its wealth with poorer countries by saying, "we ought to be forgiving Third World debt under certain conditions." It remains unclear whether this statement reflects Bush's sincere concern for developing countries or merely an attempt to match the compassion of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore has been a strong supporter of the White House's debt relief plan...
Things quit working in December 1998, when the top management at Czech Savings (CS), the country's third biggest bank, said it would go broke in 14 days if the state didn't prop it up. The price tag: at least $100 million. The top bankers were fired, and the government decided to sell all its banks, and fast. The new strategy was too late to spare taxpayers more than $5.1 billion in losses for shoring up the banking sector over the past decade...
...third category is what experts call Jihadists, groups ideologically aligned with Osama bin Laden and guided by his 1998 fatwa, which called for a holy war against Israel and the U.S. These groups, mainly Bin Laden's al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, are known to operate in Yemen. The two are among the best trained and funded on the U.S. watch list...
...This would of course be AT&T's third go-round with de-glomeration - the government took the hammer to them in 1984, and the company spun off Lucent and shed NCR in 1996. (And the track record is a bit frightening: Lucent has gone from $79 to $22 inside of a year, issued three - three! - profit warnings and this weekend fired its CEO.) The idea is to keep the company nimble in a shifting-sands technological landscape by letting each division act on its own, pursuing its own innovations, deals and profitability...