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Left unmentioned is the fact that Hussein is unable to touch a cent of the money earned through the oil-for-food deal. While it is true that Iraq is permitted to sell several billion dollars worth of oil per month, these funds are not at the discretion of Saddam Hussein, but rather are kept in a U.N. escrow account in the Bank of Paris in New York...
...comes down to a business-school concept known as option value. One of the reasons you are--or were--willing to pay $17 for a CD is that you can listen to it whenever you want, as many times as you want. With radio, you don't pay a cent but you don't have any choice of when your favorite song plays...
...more reasonable than selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for general consumption, although the latter may be necessary at some point if prices continue to increase. Congress should approve Clinton's proposal as well as resist Texas Gov. George W. Bush's hasty proposal to repeal a 4.3-cent-per-gallon gas tax, which would take away valuable highway funds while at the same time passing savings on to oil producers rather than consumers...
...California. New Hampshire convicts will stamp "Mao was Right, We Were Wrong" instead of "Live Free or Die" on state license plates and Oregon students will wear USPS uniforms to school, carry books from class to class in mail sacks and call for a ride home from thirty-three cent pay phones. Only a scattered band of resistors will remain of the once-mighty...
They got there largely by giving the store away. Nearly 60% of the Standard's 150,000 circulation goes to subscribers who don't pay a cent. Still, the subscribers do dish out the kind of personal financial details that make marketers salivate--especially when the readers' average net worth is $1.4 million. Whether they can be persuaded to part with a bit of that cash for a subscription remains to be seen...