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...coffers, is taking a hard line on holding down spending on regional and agricultural funds. Spain has been a net recipient of an average of €6 billion per year of E.U. aid over the last decade, and it wants to be let down easy as those funds begin to flow to new members in the east. It's a problem that a PP government would have faced, too, of course, and Zapatero's aides suggest that better relations with Germany can only help. On the economic front, Zapatero's critics say he's still learning the ins and outs...
...control, officials on the ground admit, and it could remain that way for some time yet. But, they add, help is on the way: Once sufficient numbers of Iraqi security personnel are trained and deployed - sometime next year - the burden borne by 130,000 U.S. troops will begin to ease. As silver linings go, it's a tempting explanation, both because it admits the current problems are in large part a result of U.S. failures - to devote sufficient resources to training the Iraqis; to recognize that dissolving Saddam's security forces would leave a security vacuum; even perhaps to heed...
...Waiting another week or so will hurt our chances of having a popular concert in the fall and will exacerbate the difficulties of this whole process for the HCC, but I am unwilling to risk dividing the Council and attracting negative press to the Council as we begin a new semester,” Mahan wrote...
Shleifer, who declined to be interviewed on Friday, also faces a three-day trial, slated to begin Dec. 6, which would determine the unresolved issue of the professor’s status in the Russia program at the time of his investments...
Gross said in the statement that he will begin a search for her replacement this fall but would not comment further on Nathans’ departure and what it would mean for the future...