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Which way will Bush lean? The test is fast approaching. In April he is scheduled to decide which new weapons to sell to Taiwan. The sales are ticklish every year, but never more so than now, when a new Administration wants to underscore its distance from China and an independence-minded Taiwan is bidding for the Navy's most advanced antimissile radar system...
...universities?the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila, De La Salle University?are dominated by students from rich and middle-class families who attended the top high schools. They eventually percolate into the Elite jobs available for graduates. For less-pedigreed programmers, the pickings can remain lean all their lives...
Which way will Bush lean? The test is fast approaching. In April he is scheduled to decide which new weapons to sell to Taiwan. The sales are ticklish every year, but never more so than now, when a new Administration wants to underscore its distance from China and an independence-minded Taiwan is bidding for the Navy's most advanced antimissile radar system...
...words normally ascribed to Boeing, and leaving town won't magically transform the company, which has a mixed record in its efforts to diversify. At the same time, it risks taking its eye off the jet business, which still accounts for about 60% of sales. But running a lean holding company removed from its operating divisions is the fashionable corporate architecture these days. And Condit believes a neutral perch is the best place to decide how to feed each of his hungry corporate chicks...
...debate a lot of the specifics, but Arab leaders are being driven to lift sanctions both by strong Arab public opinion against sanctions and by economic factors. A lot of Arab countries stand to gain if sanctions are eased, giving them greater access to trade with Iraq in lean times. But most Arab regimes also don't trust Saddam, and some, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, are adamant that if sanctions are to be lifted, Iraq must pay a price - in some form of apology to Kuwait and undertaking to never again invade. But Iraq is playing hardball, insisting...