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...BILLION-DOLLAR GAMER...
...policy unchanged, Trichet said the current rates were "appropriate" and "fully in line with what would be best to ... foster growth and job creation." The talk about Europe's dumping the euro, he added, was as ridiculous as contemplating the likelihood that Alaska, California or Florida might ditch the dollar...
...near collapse in 1998. But along with red tape and corruption, companies face government meddling, primarily in the form of a highly unpredictable tax-enforcement policy. The most battered victim is Yukos, the former Russian oil giant that is in its death throes after being hit with multibillion-dollar back-tax claims that its erstwhile owners say were part of a Kremlin campaign against them. A Moscow court last month sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos chief executive and a major shareholder, to nine years in jail on charges of tax evasion and fraud...
...style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Bionics are no longer the preserve of the Six Million Dollar Man: soon the elderly or disabled may be able to walk, climb stairs and do housework with the help of a robotic suit, or exoskeleton. The "hybrid assistive limb," or HAL, is the brainchild of Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Inspired by Isaac Asimov...
...about your own relationship with the Americans? You shrugged off the jibes from former U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick about your style, but it must have stung. I couldn't understand it. Why should critical policy issues be turned into character references? The U.S.-E.U. relationship is a billion-dollar-a-day relationship. The disputes between us are a fraction of the total, and have to be seen in perspective. You've just negotiated a deal with China limiting exports to the E.U. until 2008. Won't there always be the risk that some industrial sector will become vulnerable...