Word: investments
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...corporations to sue foreign firms that use confiscated American assets in Cuba. While the U.S. maintains a trade boycott against the island, hundreds of foreign companies, from Benetton to Toyota, have poured at least $5 billion into Cuba; and most U.S. companies would jump at the opportunity to invest--just as they are doing in Vietnam. Sponsored by two conservative Republicans, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and Indiana Congressman Dan Burton, the bill enjoyed strong support among Cuban Americans and the right. President Clinton, with an eye to re-election, signed it in March...
...much more important for Assad is establishing good working relations with the U.S. and legitimizing his position in Lebanon. Netanyahu believes the U.S. should tell Assad, "You make peace with Israel, we normalize relations with you, we'll take you off the states-supporting-terrorism list, we will cooperate, invest, take you into the community of nations and recognize your legitimate security concern in Lebanon; in exchange for that, you make peace. No return of the Golan." Netanyahu argues that if the U.S. takes that position, Assad will kick and scream for a while, but in the final account Assad...
Even in this apparently superlative area Rudenstine has not been without his critics. Some have charged that the immense amount of time he puts into the proceedings detracts from the time he has to invest in managing the University. And within 10 years, that part of the job could be removed from the president's jurisdiction...
Capello became interested in the meanings that different cultures invest in music. Sociological, political and anthropological theories of how we define different cultural and ethnic traditions--and the study of ethnomusicology, in particular--interested him. Questions about why and how a piece of music was performed in different cultures (a difference he noticed first-hand in jazz was performances at LSU and Southern), and about the perceptions and forms of different musical traditions, drove him farther from a narrowly-defined study of music...
...ready for change. Overcrowded classrooms, pinched budgets and teachers set in their ways are only a few of the obstacles. Julia Denes, assistant director of Yale's Bush Center of Child Development and Social Policy, warns, however, that not adopting CoZi-like programs will ultimately cost more. "We must invest in children at an early age to prevent special needs and delinquency," she says. That's the message too of principal Clark's field trips...