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...stance often caused considerable anger. Radek Sikorski, a former Defense Minister under the Kaczynskis who has since joined with the PO, said that while the previous government referred to "them in Brussels," the new government will say "us in the E.U." as the new government will drive a harder bargain with the U.S. over Washington's request to base a missile shield on Polish territory; it is also expected to withdraw troops from Iraq next year...
Deals in which the private sector actually builds new infrastructure are usually a better bargain for the public. The state or city gets a new stretch of highway or a bridge or a tunnel, and it shifts risk to its private partner--a genuine benefit. If construction costs spike or expected traffic doesn't materialize, that's the company's problem. "We've had some governments say to us, 'I don't really need to be in that business,'" says Mark Florian, who oversees infrastructure deals for Goldman Sachs. These so-called greenfield projects are starting to catch...
Allen's financial contribution to the project was laundry money to the likes of him--$25 million, a bargain price made possible by increases in computing power and the small (18 ft., or about 5 1?2 m) size of each dish, which makes them easy to mass-produce. But $25 million is still hard to come by when you have to tell your banker that you're using it to hunt for aliens, which is why it's nice to be a man who doesn't need a banker...
...Administration - and loudly championed by its more hawkish associates - remains prohibitive in light of the uncertain prospects of success and the backlash it would trigger. And many old diplomatic hands in Washington and in allied capitals have long argued that the matter can only be settled by a "grand bargain" of the sort now in process with North Korea...
...enemies, Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, and by virtue of its defiance of the U.S. In short, Iran is far from desperate to deal right now, and it would be inclined to make Washington pay an even higher political price than it did on North Korea for a "grand bargain...