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...indirect way of rejecting the cease-fire...
...None of those questions got clear answers last week. Through his $12 billion Fininvest holding company, Berlusconi currently owns Italy's three major private TV networks. As Prime Minister, he will also have indirect control over the three state-owned channels - putting 90% of the TV viewing public in his hands. He has promised to propose solutions to this conflict of interest during his first 100 days...
...bottom line." Britain, Germany, Spain and France will lend Airbus a third of the development costs at close to market rates. The loans don't have to be repaid if the project fails. That kind of cushion, critics charge, guarantees the A380 a soft landing. Boeing gets indirect handouts through its lucrative U.S. defense contracts. Last March, for example, the Air Force floated a plan to encourage private carriers to buy a Boeing transport plane. The bottom line, however, is that Airbus gets more government help, which often translates into deeper discounts for its customers. "We would like the playing...
...such direct payment is possible. Many Americans are descended from immigrants who came to the country after the Civil War; many families in the South did not own slaves during the period of slavery. And estimating the exact dollar obligation of a company like Aetna—reducing an indirect involvement in suffering to a dollar figure—would be a source of great conflict...
...refugee problem, which dates to fighting during Israel's 1948 war of independence. With Sharon's comeback, their hopes have been all but destroyed: whatever his promises to make peace, they still see him as "the butcher," the ex-general found by an Israeli report to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians at Sabra and the neighboring Shatila camp during...