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...Clearly Daddy-meaning, now, me-had a tall order in attempting to equal that picaresque with Caroline's first game. But that's what Daddies are for, to come up big in the clutch...
...such entities would not only be able to better compete with titans of U.S. industry, but promote the internal integration of Europe - back to that war thing. Now, with the continent well down the integrationist road, euro-zone trustbusters are back to the original plan: More companies, of approximately equal size, is the way to keep economic power nice and decentralized...
...really going to start basing social policy on the assumption that a few embryonic cells equal a human being? If so, restricting research on discarded embryos is an odd place to start. Why not restrict fertility clinics, which routinely produce more embryos than they need and destroy the surplus? To pursue the gruesome Holocaust analogy, it's like outlawing the lampshades while ignoring the gas chambers. And yet President Bush is not searching for compromise on the issue of fertility clinics because there is no such issue. The Roman Catholic Church and others are publicly opposed to high-tech fertilization...
NASD has also started posting arbitration awards online, armchair reading likely to delight and discourage in equal measure. Most lawyers won't even start sniffing if you've lost less than $50,000, which means your time may be better spent finding a new broker to rebalance your portfolio. The SEC urges investors to check a broker's history before opening an account. But its Central Registration Depository won't mention any complaints that were erased as part of settlement agreements, which took care of 41% of last year's arbitration claims. NASD has been dragging its feet in drafting...
...Despite the culture clash, the partners hammered out the basic framework for the venture at their first formal meeting, a whirlwind visit by Legend's top executives to AOL's Dulles, Virginia headquarters in June 2000. They decided almost immediately that it would be an equal partnership, according to Legend CEO Yang Yuanqing. (To comply with current China law, Legend will have a 51% stake.) The partners also quickly agreed on a business model that would combine Legend's hardware and AOL's Internet services. "There were problems throughout the negotiations," concedes Yang. "But from the beginning, both sides...