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...Judging by your suit, you’re a man who recognizes a bargain. Well, you are never going to find a better price on a vacuum cleaner than the one I have with me today...
...Pyongyang clearly wants the international community to believe that it is prepared to dramatically raise the stakes now in pursuit of a "grand bargain" agreement with the U.S. All the diplomatic players have adopted familiar responses, with Japan threatening harsh responses to a nuclear test and Russia and China calling for restraint and diplomacy. Hawks in the U.S. policy debate will say the new threat is a sign that sanctions are effective and are hurting the regime; doves will warn that escalating pressure will simply provoke the North Koreans into crossing the nuclear Rubicon...
...going on? And why did we have that oblique reference to Iraq in the opening line?This might be stretching things a bit, but perhaps Oldham wants us to see that starting a relationship, like invading Iraq, is deceptively easy—you always get more than you bargain for; and that breaking up, like “stabilizing” Iraq, is full of false endings, unexpected alliances, sectarian violence, and strange returns to the status quo.“Every time we kiss / we find ourselves in love again,” he croons on the last titled...
...leaders in the North West Frontier Province. That truce calls for Pakistani troops to end their military campaign against militants in exchange for their ending attacks on Pakistani forces and cross-border raids into Afghanistan. Karzai doesn't trust the militants to live up to their part of the bargain...
...Democratic staff, cites three reasons for the surge in profits. Millions of seniors who previously had no drug insurance coverage now do and, as a result, are buying more medications. That means more sales for the pharmaceutical companies. The Republican-controlled Congress also refused to allow Medicare to bargain with the drug companies for lower prices, believing that competition in the marketplace would keep them down. "But there has been little evidence of declining prices," the report claims...