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...terrible that it has come to this," she said. "These are terrible problems and we're committed to staying out here to fix them...
...Fishlow was joined in his skepticism of a quick free-trade fix by Velasco, who observed that U.S. enthusiasm for a deal also remained dubious, especially given congressional reluctance to grant fast-track authority to the White House to negotiate without subsequent legislative amendment. That drew the boldest proposal of all from Barshefsky, who in November 1999 successfully concluded a U.S.-China trade agreement that had previously dragged on for 13 years. Fast tracking, widely seen as a totem of U.S. trade commitment, was not absolutely necessary, she said, and had not been a factor in the China deal...
Indicators That's Oil, Folks The owners of a struggling service station in Alabama sued opec for conspiring to fix the price of oil - and won. Didn't anyone tell them that opec was created, and openly exists, for that very reason? The ruling is virtually unenforceable. Off the Menu When investment banks tell employees to tighten their belts, it doesn't mean taking a vow of poverty. Staff at Credit Suisse First Boston have been asked to keep celebratory dinners below $10,000, while Goldman Sachs has cut back on free fruit, first-class travel and taxis home. Cold...
...course, this is why pencils have erasers and operating systems have betas. Microsoft promises to make XP compatible with any device you can imagine by launch day. Then again, the brightest lights in Redmond couldn't fix my problems over two days of lengthy conference calls...
...later this month, this summer and later this summer, respectively.) My Mac headache--a doozy--came when I tried to set up a wireless Airport connection between my OS X machine and the other Macs I own, which run OS 9. You guessed it: more conference calls to fix...