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Senior U.S. officials admit that, like most countries' intelligence services, the CIA and other agencies have long collected economic intelligence and military-industrial secrets for use by government decision makers. What they have not done, the officials insist, is go out and steal trade secrets to pass on to American firms. The agencies do sometimes tip off companies they learn are being targeted by foreign agents, but they will not get into "offensive" gathering of commercial information for domestic firms. They also routinely gather intelligence on the positions of foreign governments in trade negotiations with the U.S., possible scientific breakthroughs...
...elegant orchestration of Some Enchanted Evening like a glamorous tourist passing through the lobby of a grand hotel. She follows that up with a no-frills version of Everybody Says Don't (from Anyone Can Whistle) performed as an unabashed, up-with-people showstopper. When Streisand hollers, "I insist on miracles, if you do them/ Miracles -- nothing to them!" a listener is compelled to believe that this amazing woman -- who has won a trunkful of Oscars, Tonys and Grammys -- knows a thing or two about forging one's own destiny...
...been different. Steel entered her soul, says a judge who knows her, and she did not fall prey to what had stopped women for so long -- the sense that it was one thing to be the smartest student in the class but another to have that undefinable something men insist it takes to be a top-notch lawyer. She did not think her early success was a fluke nor exclusion her fate, and this most unlikely of firebrands took one of the few clerkships offered, for a district court judge in New York. She went on to teach at Rutgers...
...patients, the reforms may mean a more restricted choice of doctors, or else paying a greater portion of the bill. Many corporate plans seek to steer patients to physicians who join a health-maintenance organization (HMO) or so- called preferred-provider organization (PPO) by cutting reimbursements to employees who insist on consulting "outside" doctors. But this is supposed to be offset by other benefits: fewer and simpler (or maybe no) maddening reimbursement-claim forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting...
...tunnel across the frontier in numbers far greater than the border patrol can possibly control. They then compete for jobs in a state that has suffered deeper employment losses than most during the long national recession and limping recovery. Or so say the critics; allies of the immigrants insist they actually make the economy more competitive by taking low-wage, manual-labor jobs that Americans scorn...