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Beyond that local effort, Wal-Mart has taken its romance national, setting up scholarships for minorities, donating to the United Negro College Fund and writing checks for several black Congressmen. Patronage has its benefits. In May Black Enterprise, the venerable periodical of Afro-America's business class, announced that Wal-Mart would be a sponsor of its 10th Annual Entrepreneur's Conference. In its June issue, Black Enterprise listed its "30 Best Companies for Diversity." Guess who made...
...around anytime soon. A senior Bush official attributes the president's collapsing poll numbers to "high gas prices and a lot of anxiety about the war" and acknowledges "that's not likely to change anytime soon." A cruel summer is likely to fade into an autumn of discontent as congressmen like Jones come back to Washington having heard complaints from constituents...
...White House has yet to indicate a preference, but a number of Republican Congressmen have told the Administration that stronger enforcement is their top priority. House majority leader Tom DeLay says President Bush has admitted recently in private talks that he made a mistake in how he approached the issue at the start of the year and that he will focus more on the problem of illegal crossings, even as he pushes for a guest-worker program. "The message," says Cornyn, "has been gotten." --By Terry McCarthy. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Nancy Harbert
...security issues?none," oil consultant Philip Verleger said earlier this summer. It was the congressional opposition that CNOOC's advisors?all American, all very experienced, and all very well paid?didn't expect, and it came with a ferocity that took everyone by surprise. In late July, Congressmen managed to get an amendment tacked on to an energy bill that U.S. President George W. Bush desperately wanted to sign, adding four additional months of regulatory scrutiny to a CNOOC bid. "It was that political opposition which tipped the balance, even more than the economics of the deal," says one banker...
...resolution preventing the U.S. Treasury from spending any money to "approve" CNOOC's bid. In response, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman?representing a government elected by no one?felt compelled to say publicly that Congress should butt out. Economic tensions with China were already front and center for many Congressmen, obsessed as they have been all year with China's surging trade surplus and a currency that was not revalued until July 21, and the Foreign Ministry did CNOOC no favors in Washington by weighing in. "For [them] to declare that Congress ought to get out of the issue...