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...that reason, it seems unlikely that the Bush Administration will adopt a tougher policy toward Riyadh. While the neocons have won most of the internal debates so far in this Administration, this time they are fighting without their powerful godfather, Vice President Dick Cheney, on board. Cheney's pragmatism on Saudi Arabia is informed by his experience as an official in the Nixon Administration in 1973, when the Saudis protested U.S. support for Israel by embargoing oil sales to the U.S. for five months, causing the worst gasoline shortages in U.S. history. From Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National...
Franken, at the time a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, sent the April letter to numerous Washington officials, including President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, cabinet members and others, and features the text in his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right...
...reported that his compensation totaled $12 million last year. In the wake of recent corporate-accounting scandals, Grasso pushed hard for strict new N.Y.S.E. governance requirements, with a focus on transparency. So pressure has built for the Big Board to follow the same standards as its members. "It was Dick who said earlier this year, 'Look, times have changed,'" says N.Y.S.E. spokesman Robert Zito. By disclosing Grasso's pay while extending his contract through 2007, the N.Y.S.E. board ate its own cooking without appearing to criticize the man who has led the exchange through boom, bust, national disaster and scandal...
...billion Estimated value of Gulf War II contracts awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Halliburton Co., whose former CEO is Vice President Dick Cheney...
...That, plus the fact that, so far, no Democratic presidential candidate has really made an issue of the trade deficit with China?not even Dick Gephardt, who was never slow to tackle the Japanese. True, Gephardt has called for an "international minimum wage," which free-trade purists (I am one) see as a disguised way to make poor countries' exports more expensive on international markets. Similarly, at the Democrat contenders' debate last week in Albuquerque, N.M., Vermont Governor Howard Dean said "we cannot continue to ship our jobs to countries where they get paid 50? an hour...