Word: bargainers
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Africa is poor. Its nations are weak; they are not in a strong position to bargain. As a result, their leaders have allowed Africa to be subject to social experimentation. When ill-informed, well-meaning friends of Africa become part of the problem, not of the solution. We need to achieve a fundamental understanding of what Africa's realities are, if only so as to respond better to its needs...
...planned release of more than 500 Serb prisoners of war. The move cast new doubts on the future of the Dayton peace agreement, which calls for all sides to release their prisoners by Friday. Bosnian government officals say that Serbs have not lived up to their end of the bargain by offering only to release 200 Muslim prisoners. At issue for the government are the some 24,000 Muslims unaccounted for in 3 1/2 years of Balkan war. Many are believed to have been executed by Serbs and burried in mass graves near Srebrenica and the Lucovica mines, and Muslim...
...great French storyteller Honore de Balzac could have written this tale of a Faustian bargain gone terribly wrong. In 1965 lawyer Andre-Francois Raffray agreed to "purchase" the house of an elderly client with $500-a-month installments, then a steep price--on condition that he would inherit the property outright the moment she died. Last week, 30 years older and $180,000 poorer, Raffray, 77, expired on Christmas Day. His client, Jeanne Calment, celebrated the holiday with a sumptuous hotel banquet in her hometown of Arles. "We all make bad deals in life," she joked to Raffray when...
...Thursday's parliamentary vote. United against New Frontier Party leader Ichiro Ozawa, the coalition is comprised of Hashimoto's conservative Liberal Democrats, the centrist Sakigake party, and the leftist Socialists. "What unifies these parties primarily is the desire to avoid scheduling elections," notes Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. "The bargain was originally to let a Socialist be prime minister; now it's the LDP's turn." Hashimoto has gained popularity and a reputation as a tough negotiator after participating in trade talks with U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor. His main priorities are reenergizing Japan's flagging economy through massive public...
...charisma helped him transform the House and press his agenda, but ego and hubris produced the major miscalculations. If the months leading up to the August break were played on offense, the fall was full of fumbles. For the first time, Gingrich had to close a deal, to bargain with someone whose interests were at odds with his own. He learned the hard way that this stage of the game, the stage at which Bob Dole is the unchallenged master, was not his strength. Nor was he entirely suited to the housekeeping details his new job entailed. By autumn...