Word: though
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...Though the odds are against it, a dollar implosion cannot be ruled out. Allen Sinai, president and chief global economist for Primark Decision Economics, a global forecasting firm, assigns it about a 30% chance. One reason is that money traders, once moved in any direction, have rarely been noted for moderation; they often push the price of any currency up or down far beyond what might be justified by economic fundamentals...
Lundberg is thought to be the highest paid executive in Warsaw, though all she will say is that she's earned less than she would have made in the U.S. over the same period. If she didn't have Polish roots to start with, she's tried to grow them on the job. In 1994 Lundberg bought a home on the outskirts of Warsaw (relocating six families in the process) and characteristically took it down to bare bricks before renovating from scratch with the help of renowned local artisans. She can follow a conversation in Polish, and her two children...
...company's titles. Written by investigative reporter John Connolly and tentatively called The Insane Clown Posse, the book proposed to turn the tables on President Clinton's impeachment accusers, from Ken Starr and his staff to several anti-Clinton journalists, by exposing their secrets. The results, though, appear to exemplify the politics of personal destruction that Clinton's defenders have long claimed to abhor...
Which is not to say the case is a slam dunk for Microsoft. The company stubbornly clings to fixed ideas that backfired in Jackson's court and could easily backfire again. For example, Microsoft still plans to argue that it is not a monopoly--even though it controls more than 90% of the PC operating-system market. And it continues to claim that well-established antitrust laws do not apply to an industry dealing in 21st century technology. The company's almost religious zeal on these points won't help its image in the appeals court. "If you indiscriminately attack...
...Israeli government expressed its sorrow, but behind the scenes a more sober view reigned. Assad was, in some ways, a good foe to have: smart, reliable in his intransigence. Though in 1973 he sent hundreds of tanks swarming toward Israel on the Jewish Day of Atonement in a concerted effort with Egypt to regain Arab territory, once he'd lost the war, he kept to the truce with utmost scrupulousness...