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George W. Bush has shown tremendous restraint during the past few days in declining to point out that the big mess we're now in is a perfect illustration of what he was saying throughout the election campaign--that the government always screws things up. After all, compare the conduct of this election with the way things are done in the private sector. Private corporations hold elections all the time, and they routinely deliver victory to the management's nominees for the board of directors by huge majorities without any fuss. Only an election run by government bureaucrats would...
...verdict reaffirming a law that said no single shareholder could own more than 10% of Air Canada, effectively scuttling the bid. Then, with backing from United Airlines and Lufthansa, Air Canada swallowed its competitor for a fire-sale $61 million. Milton summed up his business philosophy: "I don't mess around with other people, and I don't like people messing around with...
...Gore, who ran as a fighter, has at least another week while the courts, Supreme and otherwise, chew on this mess. The trick is to avoid looking like little more than a nagging question himself...
...That evolution produced lawyers, without whom America would be utterly divided on who to blame for this mess...
...heard a nitwit on a cable-TV news show say this mess is bound to discourage the younger people from believing in the political process. Discourage? If the young have been paying attention, they'll be singing their heads...