Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advisers have become much more candid--and realistic--about their goals: the White House realizes that air attacks probably won't topple Saddam or force him to open his doors to unrestricted access by U.N. inspectors. So Clinton and his aides have fallen back to a more limited strategy: chip away at Saddam's ability to make horror weapons, delay the day Saddam is able use them against neighbors, and then do it again after 12 months, if necessary. That way, the Administration can hail almost any damage to Iraqi targets as a success...
Tripp did this even though she was not in any jeopardy, not even of losing her job. She comes across as a busybody with a large chip on her shoulder who'd had her first attempt at a White House book rejected. Egged on by book agent Lucianne Goldberg, Tripp reached for the On button. No one likes a snitch, especially one with so much to gain. So on Friday, Tripp explained, "I struggled long and hard... I was facing substantial risk of losing everything I have aspired to..." She went on to rail against "McCarthyistic" tactics...
Digital completes a strategic triangle. It produces such high-margin items as the servers that link thousands of PCs on the Net, but its support staff serves such blue-chip customers as Citicorp and Lockheed Martin. Digital will smooth Compaq's path into the corporate computing world coveted by Pfeiffer. "Services open the door for hardware," says Digital chairman Robert Palmer...
...double for the children. Mr. Clinton knows this. He's a parent too. Like the rest of us, he had to explain his predicament to his child. True, he's more practiced (see below), but it can't have been easy. One bright note for the President: the V chip finally starts to make sense...
...rate of 20%. So it makes sense for companies to use their cash to buy back stock. Yes, a bear market could devour this strategy. But as long as the tax code clearly favors capital gains, dividends will dwindle--and nothing would make that plainer than a healthy blue chip wiping out its dividend altogether...