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...future of Jerusalem non-negotiable and has ruled out a freeze on settlements and withdrawal from all occupied territories. But Israel is ready to adopt an interim five-year plan that would grant Palestinians limited self- rule while maintaining control of the land, security arrangements and foreign affairs. Could bolt if it feels overly pressured...
This is, I am told, a more common occurrence in Europe, which I suppose means you could wind up in another country. Bring a No. 2 pencil and a passport. Villagers in Brussels bolt their doors, as waves of Germans with extraordinary analytical scores flood in for a few gruelling hours of bubbling...
MIRVed ICBMs have long been the principal villains in American strategists' scenarios for a "bolt from the blue" Soviet attack. Because the U.S.S.R. is a land power with a historical preference for heavy artillery, it has more of these hydra-headed monsters than...
Buffett's internal reforms, announced shortly after he and Maughan took up their posts, could cost Salomon some of its high-flying bond traders, who could bolt from the firm once they receive this year's bonuses. If individual bonuses are decoupled from the performance of business units in order to eliminate the motivation for overly aggressive trading, some traders may jump ship. Says a former Salomon trader: "People who have had deals like that know they can get them someplace else...
Those weapons, to be sure, are irrelevant to Gorbachev's current preoccupations and divert resources from perestroika. In fact, rather than fretting about a bolt-from-the-blue Soviet attack on the U.S., experts at the CIA and Pentagon have lately been worrying about the much more plausible danger that Soviet tactical nukes, as well as chemical and biological weapons, might end up in the hands of secessionist rebels in the U.S.S.R. or shady merchants in the international arms bazaar. Still, American defense planners cannot entirely rule out the possibility that the Strategic Rocket Forces might pose a threat...