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...high table of presidential politics, primary campaigns are sumptuous nine-course affairs. Aspiring candidates put on long white aprons, line up behind tables full of flickering Sterno, and dish out issues and arguments to fatten the voters. This year the smorgasbord from Iowa to California groaned under all the offerings: flattening the tax structure, abolishing free-trade agreements, limiting the terms of lawmakers, reinventing welfare or health care or public housing or farm subsidies, spending more on defense, cutting this agency or that, restricting immigration. In this context voters could come to believe that those they elected would determine what...
...million question is, Will large grocery chains thwart Post's intentions by using the wholesale-price cuts to fatten their own profits instead of lowering shelf prices? While companies such as A&P vowed last week to pass along "most" of the savings, others are being coy. Many could well be reluctant to undercut their own house brands, which have even higher profit margins than national brands...
...species back into the U.S. "The program has been a success as far as the breeding goes," reports TIME's Patrick Dawson from Montana. "The problem is the political opposition, which would like to see the program scrapped. Those opposed think if they can't shoot it, brand it, fatten it up or fence it in, then it is not worth anything. There is a real danger that a Republican president, working with a Republican Congress, could do away with the program entirely." Last year, 29 of the wolves were released in the U.S., and nine pups were born...
What the MCI-News Corp. alliance indisputably does right off the bat is fatten News Corp.'s coffers. To Murdoch, with billions jangling in his pocket, a good part of the media world must now look like so many packages wrapped with bows, just waiting for him to untie them. Late last week he grabbed for one, making a $2.8 billion bid for the three television networks of Italy's former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, which are watched by nearly half the country's TV audience. And then? "Ted Turner may want to retire," he joked mordantly at a press conference...
...allegations of price fixing and other anticompetitive behavior on the national over-the-counter stock market. The probe follows about a dozen lawsuits filed in July that charge that some of Wall Street's largest brokers, including Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Alex Brown, have an unspoken agreement to fatten profits by charging excessive spreads on NASDAQ stocks. The effect: slightly higher prices for consumers when they buy stocks, and slightly lower prices when they sell. NASDAQ denies any price fixing, maintaining that the spread is determined by the forces of supply and demand for each stock. Pending the outcome...