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Even if Condit had nothing to do with Chandra Levy's disappearance--police continue to insist that he's not a suspect--his painstakingly tended image has been shattered and his political career declared dead. Democrats and Republicans are already scheming how to carve his conservative district to maximum advantage, or reapportion it out of existence. "If he's smart, he won't even run for re-election," says A.G. Block, executive editor of California Journal, a magazine on state politics...
...what can Asian countries do? How about having a little more faith in themselves?and in one another? East Asia is awash with cash and interest rates are at record lows almost everywhere. Yet borrowing and spending are?China excepted?feeble. Governments and companies still insist on borrowing in dollars. Regional central banks still accumulate huge piles of high-priced greenbacks, even though U.S. indebtedness casts a shadow over the currency's long-term value...
...want to shrink the boundaries are timber companies and cattle owners," he says. "If you don't believe they ruin the land, imagine what your street would look like after a cow or a logger with a chainsaw spent some time there. I don't understand why they insist on ruining this tiny speck on the map when they have millions of acres nearby they're allowed to destroy...
...Rolls-Royce stressed the dangers of allowing GE to "bundle" engines and avionics in packages that other firms couldn't match, and United Technologies concentrated on GE's role as a buyer of planes through GE Capital Aviation Services, its finance and leasing subsidiary. GECAS, it was argued, would insist that those from whom it bought aircraft should buy both GE engines and Honeywell avionics, hence reducing consumer choice and stifling technological innovation...
...Even if Condit had nothing to do with Chandra Levy's disappearance - police continue to insist that he's not a suspect - his painstakingly tended image has been shattered and his political career declared dead. Democrats and Republicans are already scheming how to carve his conservative district to maximum advantage, or reapportion it out of existence. "If he's smart, he won't even run for re-election," says A.G. Block, executive editor of California Journal, a magazine on state politics...