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...serious foreign adversary. So why are Bush and Clinton seeking only marginal cuts in a Pentagon budget that will still top $1 trillion over five years? Instead, why not start from the bottom and tailor America's military to its true mission -- and bring home a real peace dividend...
...course, does not guarantee a full year's comeback. Citing the U.S. economy's anemic 1.4% growth in gross domestic product, Ford's chairman, Harold Poling, warned that his company intended to stockpile its winnings against a traditionally weak third quarter and refused even to chip in a dividend boost for shareholders. General Motors is expected to remain in the losers' column when it reports its quarterly earnings this week, mainly because of huge write-offs from its troubled Hughes defense subsidiary. "We haven't had any real recovery yet," cautions Shearson Lehman analyst Joseph Phillippi. "The automakers...
...American inner city, not advocating attacks on police." He said Time Warner would sponsor a TV forum for artists, law-enforcement officials and others to discuss such topics as racism and free speech. Levin also said the company was declaring a 4-for-1 stock split and increasing its dividend...
...directly to a handful of institutions and relatively well-heeled folks who were clever enough to lend the government money at profitable rates. To these fortunate individuals (nearly 15% of whom are not even American citizens), there is indeed a U.S. government, or at least someone who disburses those dividend checks...
Much of the multilingual talent is a dividend from the missionary work performed by the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For decades the church has sent thousands of young men (and a few women) each year on missions to win converts around the world. They spend at least two years in an assigned region, preaching the Mormon message and living side by side with locals. With more than 8 million members worldwide, the church has 44,500 missionaries serving in 95 countries and 26 territories...