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SEATTLE: While Boeing awaits the final word from Europe on its proposed swallowing of aerospace rival McDonnell Douglas Corp., the company's owners are fully behind the deal. At a Seattle meeting of Boeing shareholders, the $15 billion merger was approved by slightly more than 99 percent. The holdout? James...
BRUSSELS, Belgium: The European Union approved "in principle" Boeing's $15 billion megamerger with McDonnell Douglas after the aircraft manufacturer made key concessions on exclusive supply contracts and the sharing of aviation technologies. The preliminary agreement temporarily averts a trade war between the United States and the EU which threatened...
--Reported by Tim Larimer and Matthew Lee/Phnom Penh and Douglas Waller/Washington
Yes, of course the Lincoln-Douglas debates were great. But their time has passed. Modern political debates are a travesty of the form. Indeed, their main purpose is to produce the one sound bite--"I knew John Kennedy, Senator..."--that will register on the evening news. Sound bites are what...
Why, even the good old days could tire of loquaciousness and appreciate the fine bite. Stephen Douglas, after all, made it into the Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations with "Sit down, Lincoln, your time is up."