Word: chip
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...rooftops, wrapping a sheet around his hand to vault over a wall with shards of glass on it, and somehow keeping track of the elusive Nicky in a big, unfamiliar city. Maybe our super-spy's brain, earlier rewired by The Company, has been accessorized with a Google Earth chip implant...
...Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee approved by a vote of 17-4 legislation to continue funding for S-CHIP, the federal program that has successfully insured over seven million of America's poorest children since it began in 1997 - funded by increased taxes on cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products. The higher taxes would fund SCHIP coverage for an additional 3.3 million children...
...Both sides of the aisle pointed to presidential waivers that had allowed about 700,000 low-income adults, parents and pregnant women to receive S-CHIP coverage in 2006, and that Bush's own Administration has encouraged governors to expand the program...
...accept today's decision rather than fight it. His Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, told the state media that the government will honor the Supreme Court ruling, a point Musharraf has made several times over the past weeks. Humayun Gohar, editor-in-chief of the Islamabad based business magazine Blue Chip, says the ruling will "weaken Musharraf" but believes it could also be a blessing in disguise for the government. They "are fighting on several fronts and now one front is closed. If the government is sensible, it will accept the decision," says Gohar...
...Chinese government views this blue-chip IPO parade as essential for economic modernization. "The government wants a healthy equity culture to gradually develop in China," says Jing Ulrich, managing director of China equities at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, "because allocating capital more efficiently is central to the ongoing reform process." The government has outsized influence over large Chinese corporations for a simple reason: most being brought to market are state owned. Encouraging big, well-known companies to make their shares available to domestic investors-who have very limited access to markets abroad-makes sense. China's equity markets have...