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...year old chemist was halfway across the world in Penang, Malaysia talking up investors for his company, Integrated Electronics. Investors were getting nervous and now, on a narrow dirt side road outside the city, his car came to a grinding halt, stuck...
Demakis is also working to halt a New York developer who is attempting to place a skyscraper in the Back Bay area of Boston...
...pressure on Israel by imposing deadlines in the peace process and for not moving Washington's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The irony, not lost on AIPAC officials, is that President Bush consistently took harsher positions on Israel than the Clinton administration has, even threatening to halt U.S. aid in order to stop Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - a form of leverage as unthinkable during Clinton's tenure as moving the embassy would have been on President Bush's watch. (Of course President Bush was substantially driven by a concern, less important...
...take over the post of deputy inspector general - a job that, among other things, would have required Smith to handle charges of sexual misconduct within the ranks. Kennedy's accusations, which were substantiated by a recently completed Army investigation, brought Smith's career to a screeching and very public halt; his presumed ascent to the inspector general's office was put on hold while the Army looked into the charges, and another officer took over the position temporarily. That officer is due to retire soon, and the post will be awarded to a third candidate, Major General Joseph Inge...
...clearer idea of just how high the Fed plans to go at its June meeting, there may be a silver lining for investors in Greenspan's desire to get the job done quickly. "The need to ensure a smooth landing rather than bring the economy crashing to a halt means that the Fed will want to make any increase in June their last for the year," says Baumohl. "It wouldn?t be at all surprising if, once it absorbed that increase, the market shows a healthy rebound...