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...country's biggest construction companies for projects that need to be done quickly, like removing debris from the streets before the autumn rains begin. But it will hire smaller companies from the most affected communities to do the bulk of the reconstruction work. "Many of them will go bankrupt if they don't get work soon," said Khereddine. "And we will survey the work so that we will know if they are doing it well." Infrastructure repairs to the electricity and water systems will be left to the government, he said...
...delay in diplomatic engagement, the failure to press for an immediate cease-fire, the refusal to condemn Israel for heinous attacks on civilians and disruption of humanitarian relief: such tactics further reveal the Bush Administration's Middle East policy for the ethically bankrupt disaster it has always been. CHARLES BERGMAN Omaha...
...going to say he couldn't get arrested, but that was about all he could get. What he couldn't get was a job. He was a prophet without honor ? and, worse, for a would-be-working comedian, without profit. On his 40th birthday he declared himself bankrupt, and nine months later he was dead. People who may have known only vaguely of Lenny Bruce were treated to the indelible image of a bloated, naked man splayed on the floor with a syringe in his arm. For more than five hours after discovering the body, police had allowed reporters...
What a potential buyer would get is a Marvel unrecognizable from the cartoonish operation it was eight years ago. First, owner Ron Perelman pillaged Marvel for cash and floated $250 million in high-yield debt. The weakened company couldn't make the payments and went bankrupt in 1996. Perelman had also sold off much of the company's most valuable intellectual property...
...detainees. Securing the release of many of them, by negotiating the return of the Israeli corporal, would make heroes of Hamas. And it would do so at a time when ordinary Palestinians have been grumbling that they may have erred in electing the radical group since the government--bankrupt because of international boycotts--has gone five months without paying salaries to its 160,000 employees...