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...this year. Even so, late-April polls still showed that some 69% of Israelis wanted to preserve the peace process. With Netanyahu behind in the polls up to election day, Israeli voters were treated to the oddity of Peres' working hard to look tough while his hard-line challenger kept sweet-talking about how he was for peace...
...enough to tempt Assad into giving Israel the full, open peace it demanded in return. Netanyahu thinks Assad might be persuaded to stop harboring terrorist groups, but aside from that, he's not much interested in negotiating a full treaty. If not, so what? The Syrians have kept talking so far largely to please Washington, whose financial and diplomatic aid they covet, but Assad may be just as glad if Netanyahu takes an unyielding line: then Washington will blame Jerusalem for any failures...
...failed to live up to one of his promises, they simply ignored it. The accord Shaath brokered, for example, calls for Israelis to withdraw forces from the West Bank town of Hebron, but that hasn't happened yet. "We normally would have screamed," Shaath says, "but we've generally kept quiet. We've been patient with Peres as he has had to satisfy the Israeli right wing. The question is whether that patience will have been worth...
Fortress Frito-Lay began to assume its present state in 1991 when Roger Enrico, now CEO of parent PepsiCo, was put in charge of the division. The company's market share had fallen to 38% from 42%, but profits were solid because Frito-Lay kept raising prices. Raising prices while losing share is a recipe for disaster in an era in which value is a driving force in consumer behavior. Worse, when Frito-Lay compared its snacks with those made by Eagle, it concluded that its rival's were better...
Apparently computer records are kept in strings of digits, and only two digits in the string are used to designate the year. Calculations are based on constantly going to a higher number, and when 99 goes to 00, the computer will think it has gone to a lower number. (Sure, the computer should know better, but let's face it, computers are sometimes dumb as dirt.) Magenta will start to run. "As an example," I was told, "bonds that pay more as the number of the year goes higher will pay less because the number will be lower...