Word: defectives
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...talks, which are meant to hash out ground rules for the final stretch of negotiations before the target completion date of Jan. 1, 2005. Things got fierce before the meeting began. The U.S. used its carrots and sticks to successfully pressure nations like Peru and Colombia to defect from Brazil's alliance. Lula, meanwhile, accused Washington of creating a "commercial apartheid." He sent diplomats throughout Latin America to shore up support for what he and Argentine President Néstor Kirchner call the Buenos Aires Consensus, a left-leaning design for trade that emphasizes job creation and access to markets...
...Jetta started to feel sluggish, says Jones, 28. But what especially disturbed her were the grim faces of other VW owners that she encountered at her dealership: "The majority of them weren't there for basic service," she says, "but because of some defect." Ordinarily Volkswagen might say that Jones simply got a lemon - or a "Monday car" assembled by hungover workers. But that's a tough case to make these days. In the latest survey of three-year dependability by J.D. Power and Associates, an automotive consulting firm, American consumers ranked VW-brand cars fifth from last...
When it does, the already hot competition among service providers is sure to intensify as each carrier scrambles to retain its customers and poach others. Yankee Group analyst Roger Entner estimates that once subscribers can keep their phone number, 12 million to 15 million more than usual will defect every year, costing the industry between $2 billion and $3 billion annually. (That doesn't include the estimated $1 billion the industry will have to spend to upgrade its networks to accommodate the change, but consumers will be picking up that tab; some providers are already collecting a small surcharge.) Even...
...Iraq comes to a close, the struggle for political control is just beginning. For two decades, Saddam ruthlessly eliminated political opponents, leaving Iraq with no recognized leader-in-waiting. War planners had hoped that some resistance hero might surface during the fight or that top army officers would defect to form the nucleus of a new regime. Neither happened, and now dozens of powerful tribes, religious organizations and ethnic groups, as well as exiles, are jockeying to fill the vacuum. The U.S. has to be careful. It's just possible that the worst thing Washington could do is handpick...
...that the initial display of military might by U.S. warplanes and ground troops would "shock and awe" the Iraqi military and high-ranking officials into the conviction that resistance was futile. The despot's regime, Administration officials insisted, was too "brittle" to survive such an onslaught. Iraqi troops would defect en masse, they suggested. Intelligence and military officers had selected likely turncoats among the military's highest echelons. Just two days before the opening salvo, Richard Perle, a leading war booster on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, predicted, "Even those closest around the [Iraqi] President will understand they have...