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...done recently, or try to reduce the amount of toxic metals used in those products, as Apple has done. The answer will almost certainly have to come from rich importers - for poor nations, the money that can be made off the e-waste trade is simply too good to abandon, despite the environmental and health costs...
...should, too; pursuing Yahoo is a pretty good hint that his master plan for the Web is, like Gates's was, to try to buy Microsoft's way into the game.) There are many smart and talented people inside Microsoft who know what to do. (Blow up Vista and abandon its next iteration, Windows 7, and start from scratch, is but one excellent idea...
...goal of this financial finagling: to pocket the difference between the $400,000 loan and the actual $216,000 purchase price, and then simply abandon the home and force the banks to foreclose - sticking them with property worth far less than the amount they had loaned. It was a textbook attempt to beat the system: fraudulent paperwork, straw borrowers, all concocted by real estate professionals...
...governments will not abandon their quest for better institutions. Nor will they renegotiate the treaty: they fear that to amend one bit of what is a package of finely balanced compromises could lead to other bits unraveling. That leaves two options. One is to bury the Lisbon treaty but try to save some of its key provisions. A few of them, designed to improve cooperation in matters of justice and foreign policy, could perhaps be introduced without a new treaty. Furthermore, the prospect of Croatian membership, expected in two or three years, offers opportunities. Every time a country joins...
Politicians deploy righteous indignation like college students use credit cards - to excess and with abandon. For such seasoned performers, the emotion is easy to muster, and there are few upfront costs. Rail against powerful interests or the mendacity of your opponent on the stump, and the crowd goes nuts...