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Concerned foremost with budget politics, Congress too did its best to whitewash. Large manned-space-flight centers that depend on the shuttle are in Texas, Ohio, Florida and Alabama. Congressional delegations from these states fought frantically against a shuttle replacement. The result was years of generous funding for constituents--and now another tragedy...
...generous parents bought me a round-trip ticket from the Big Apple to the City of Angels, and off I went...
...finally turning a corner? Fueled by deep discounts, sales for the troubled automaker surged 47% in June. But that prompted Chrysler and Ford to offer generous incentives too, setting the stage for a brutal price war. GM is also banking on redesigned SUVs to lift sales, despite a shift in consumer sentiment away from the gas guzzlers. High profit margins on SUVs are critical to GM's bottom line. But just 34% of shoppers are now considering an SUV, a three-year low, according to a recent survey by Kelley Blue Book. Sales of fuel-saving hybrids, meanwhile, are expected...
...still against a breakthrough deal. North Korea's problems go way beyond electricity; for a start, its economy is still only about half its 1980s size. That makes it doubtful that it will trade in its best bargaining chip?nuclear weapons?for a South Korean offer that, while generous and serious, nonetheless addresses only one aspect of the Stalinist state's overall needs...
...Filipinos have a schizophrenic view of their political leaders, from town mayors to provincial governors to Presidents. They must be generous patrons, doling out to people in need?as if they were benevolent Sultans with bottomless purses. But they must not be corrupt. In our personality-driven culture, clans and ritual bonds are important; ideologies and government programs are not. When things go right, it's because leaders are heroes of epic proportion. When things go wrong, we replace personalities rather than reinforce institutions and processes...