Word: friday
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MOSCOW: Call it good Kremlin, bad Kremlin. The last time Boris Yeltsin addressed parliament about passing tax reforms, he threatened to dissolve it. Friday, beleaguered prime minister Sergei Kiriyenko tried a softer sell: He appealed to its good nature. "The financial market has practically ceased to exist," Kiriyenko said. "Social tension is growing in society, which naturally is not helpful to stabilization." Kiriyenko pleaded with the recalcitrant Duma to speed passage of a series of new tax laws that Russia needs to get a desperately needed multibillion-dollar bailout from...
...Friday, 2 p.m., Pristina. Bleary-eyed and discouraged, Holbrooke has stayed up all night, phoning diplomats in Kosovo and officials at the State Department, the U.N. and NATO headquarters. He is concerned that the next Balkan war could start at Kijevo, a village so tiny that it's not even on the map. A few thousand Albanians, 80 Serb families and 250 Serb military police are surrounded by K.L.A. checkpoints. But no one there is able to tear down the K.L.A. barricades. Ambassador Hill will return this week to try to get the checkpoints cleared, and U.S. Envoy...
News of the deal rang bells from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. Investors drove up the price of cable- company stocks on the hope that more buyouts would follow. But Wall Street was less than gaga about AT&T, whose stock closed Friday at $56.75, down a whopping $8.625--or 13.1%--since Armstrong unveiled the deal. "Wall Street is missing the point," says Stuart Conrad, the head of telecommunications research for Deutsche Bank Securities. "This is one of the best things that AT&T could have done...
...GORE'S SCHEDULE RATING MONDAY Tour of Florida's fire damage [Full eagle] TUESDAY Environmental funding announcements in capital [1/4 eagle] WEDNESDAY Social Security forum in Rhode Island [3/4 eagle] FRIDAY Town hall education meeting in Louisiana [1/2 eagle...
TOKYO: Skeptics abounded when Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto signaled a move toward permanent tax cuts during a campaign speech on Friday. But you could forgive U.S. officials if they were feeling better after Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, in a joint news conference Saturday with U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright in Tokyo, described permanent tax cuts as a "promise" that Japan intended to keep...