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...twofold benefit: first, to safeguard investors' principal against the ravages of rising prices; second, to cut the cost of financing America's $4 trillion national debt. Wall Street too is happy: bond dealers get a new plaything in the bargain. Gushes Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers: "This is a win-win idea: better for citizens, better for government, better for financial markets...
...when Gates announced a similar, competing product. Rob Glaser, a former Microsoft executive who now runs the company that makes RealAudio, an Internet sound system, is an admirer who compliments Gates on his vision. But, he adds, Gates is "pretty relentless. He's Darwinian. He doesn't look for win-win situations with others, but for ways to make others lose. Success is defined as flattening the competition, not creating excellence." When he was at Microsoft, for example, Glaser says the "atmosphere was like a Machiavellian poker game where you'd hide things even if it would blindside...
Feinstein called the agreement "win-win," which in matters environmental means nobody is happy. Either party can back out of the agreement on two weeks' notice. Like all good negotiators, Hurwitz knows when to ask for more, and the Greens are certain he will. They now refer sarcastically to the preserved tracts as a tree museum...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: By calling this Mideast summit, President Clinton has placed himself in a win-win situation politically five weeks before his election. "Clinton's goal is to quiet down the violence before election day," TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports. "But his political need for peace is not pressing. He is in a no-lose situation. He has already established strong ties with American Jews. By calling this summit, he is seen as trying to whatever he can to help the peace process." While Simons says Clinton is unlikely to apply too much pressure on either side...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: By calling this Mideast summit, President Clinton has placed himself in a win-win situation politically five weeks before his election. "Clinton's goal is to quiet down the violence before election day," TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports. "But his political need for peace is not pressing. He is in a no-lose situation. He has already established strong ties with American Jews. By calling this summit, he is seen as trying to whatever he can to help the peace process." While Simons says Clinton is unlikely to apply too much pressure on either side...