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...Wolfowitz visited the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and was a study in subdued opacity when it came to the Iraq reconstruction plan. In fairness, he wasn't pressed very hard by the Senators, who apparently find precise questions, unlike imprecise speeches, an unnecessary act of self-abnegation. Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel was an exception. He asked, simply: Why was former General Jay Garner so quickly replaced by former diplomat L. Paul Bremer as the American proconsul in Iraq? Wolfowitz said Garner hadn't been replaced. He had been subsumed: the Pentagon had planned all along to put someone like Bremer...
...Calif., began outsourcing 10% of its production to Asia four years ago. It was not an easy decision. Many buyers of the firm's distinctive dark-handled knives, used for skinning deer and cleaning fish, were unhappy to learn that some Buck knives are forged overseas. But, explains chairman Chuck Buck, "we were getting pressure from dealers to lower our prices. Our filleting knives were selling for $26. Foreign knives were going for $14." So Buck outsourced some production, laid off a dozen of his 290 workers and cut the price of some products. He is relocating the company...
...affable university president, known to his colleagues as “Chuck,” hardly seemed the most alarmist of the 12 panelists gathered to discuss the future of the nation’s security from international terrorism...
...sanctions "the green light to a war." And South Korea, which faces Kim's artillery batteries across the Demilitarized Zone, has long argued against provoking the North by playing tough. Might Roh finally relent, joining Bush in a bid to sever the North's financial lifelines? Not likely, says Chuck Downs, author of Over the Line, a study of North Korea's negotiating tactics, "Their ace in the hole is South Korean fear...
...White House aides dismiss the criticism as the usual whining of a messy and undisciplined Congress. Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley, who insisted on the smaller $350 billion price tag for any tax package that comes out of his tax-writing committee, is dismissed as a headline hound. Majority Leader Frist, who allowed the budget to pass that limits the size of the cut, is portrayed as a newbie rolled by his more experienced colleagues. " (Budget Chairman Don) Nickles wanted a budget before recess" says a White House official involved in selling the tax plan, "and Frist gave...