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...Beijing encounter, Hayes accepted Lau's offer to help arrange a meeting with China's trade minister. Several weeks later, the two sides initialed an agreement criticized by some industry figures as a giveaway to China. Hayes told TIME that Lau had no influence on the talks and that she was "totally unaware" that in 1995 Lau, his companies and a business associate paid $3 million to settle a federal lawsuit charging them with making false declarations to Customs. Hayes says she knows nothing of Lau's links to the Democratic Party. Of her apparently brief sessions with...
...idea behind the giveaway was that the new channels would be used to provide high-definition television (HDTV), which features razor-sharp pictures and CD-quality sound, as well as a host of other digital services. Broadcasters argued that without getting the channels for free, they could never afford to develop HDTV. And, they emphasized, it was only a loan: by 2006, the rollout of digital TV would be complete, and they would give back their old analog channel space. Fair enough, perhaps, if seeing Dan Rather's pores clearly is worth $70 billion to the nation...
...running for cover, consider Treasury bonds, now yielding more than 7%, or T-bond funds. "That's an extraordinary giveaway with inflation below 2%," says Charles Clough, chief strategist at Merrill Lynch. Commercial real estate investment trusts (REITS), with their 6%-plus yields and healthy underpinnings of rising rents and still reasonable property values, are a good option. So are foreign stock markets, including that of battered Japan, which has to turn up at some point. You could, of course, simply ride this thing out. But prices remain grossly inflated by most yardsticks. At best we are entering a long...
Then fellow Commodore Kristin Ehst corralled the ensuing draw, ran down the length of the field practically undefended and scored. That's two giveaway goals...
...Netanyahu announced that Israel would fulfill its obligation to make another partial pullback from the West Bank but would vacate just 9% of the land still under occupation--of which only 2% was not already under shared Israeli-Palestinian authority. Israeli nationalists were up in arms again at the "giveaway," while Palestinians had expected to retrieve at least 20% or 30% of the West Bank. Arafat was so enraged that he rejected the handover and refused to take any calls from Netanyahu...