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It’s not every day that President George W. Bush wants to dole out $15 billion in foreign aid. But when it becomes a part of his pro-oil, anti-people foreign policy, he’s more than willing to whip out America’s checkbook...
...government watchdog's report last Thursday indicated that the landmark summit between Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung may have been bought and paid for by Seoul. President Kim's crowning achievement?his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize?may thus be tainted by charges of checkbook diplomacy. After a three-month investigation, the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea declared that, just a week before the summit, $332 million was transferred from the state-run Korea Development Bank into Hyundai Merchant Marine, a subsidiary of the Hyundai conglomerate, which has connections to the North. The business...
...student’s parents got sick or something, he would just whip out his checkbook and write them a check for a plane ticket,” said PBHA President Laura E. Clancy...
...would vote no," the man says. "But if you did a secret ballot, 90% would say yes." Why? In public, the farmers don't want to be seen capitulating to sinister forces from Brussels who are thought to be paving the way for a German conquest-by-checkbook. But privately, they have already calculated how much their E.U. subsidies will be worth. Having renounced Karl Marx, the people of the east are finding that Europe is like the club described by Groucho: not quite so desirable now that it will take them as members. What began as a grand project...
...officer took a report of a stolen checkbook at the Kennedy School...