Word: jettisoning
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...nurturing an exemplary democracy in a region mired in autocracy and economic stasis. But for many other UN member states Iraq is not free but occupied without international consent. And the President's suggestion in passing that the Palestinians ought to learn from what the U.S. is doing and jettison their elected leader, Yasser Arafat, won't have helped him persuade the skeptics. At the UN, after all, Bush is even more isolated on the question of Arafat than he is on Iraq - last week's General Assembly resolution demanding that Israel refrain from acting against the Palestinian leader...
...downplays its bond issue as a routine exercise, and says its debt of about €4.6 billion has remained fairly stable. As for PPR, it says its asset sales are part of a long-term strategy to concentrate on high-end retailing and luxury goods and jettison most other businesses. "We're just implementing the strategy a bit faster and in better conditions than people expected," says a spokesman. But Pinault's Achilles heel is not so much the level of his debt as the value of the assets he has pledged to the banks against it. The stock...
...Unfortunately for Abu Mazen, his policy of suppressing militant groups and relying exclusively on the diplomatic route to pressure Israel into withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza remains a tough sell even to many Palestinians willing to jettison Arafat. And while his longtime efforts as a peacemaker - he famously co-authored a plan for sharing Jerusalem with former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin - have earned Abu Mazen considerable respect in foreign capitals, he has no mass support base of his own among Palestinians. The latest opinion survey published by a respected Palestinian polling organization showed that while some...
...company, which posted $35 billion in revenues in its first six months. Can she go from being a Churchillian leader, adept at giving a "We will never surrender" speech, to being more of a Lou Gerstner, IBM's former CEO, who was able not only to slash costs and jettison unpromising lines of business but also to steer the company toward new prospects and profits...
Thus, while the U.N. regained a certain degree of credibility on Monday, it still has a long way to go. Murderous dictatorships have no place on any legitimate human rights commission—to argue otherwise is just laughable. The U.N. must also jettison its reflexively anti-American tendencies if it wishes to maintain any sense of principled authority on the world stage. It may disagree with President Bush over global warming and missile defense, but it sorely needs his moral clarity and strong leadership. Despite the remonstrations of European elites and left-wing international bureaucrats, America is still...