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...term, bilateral security agreement directly between Iraq and the United States. And while the proposed details have yet to emerge, similar U.S. agreements with other nations in the region - including Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - have all involved a 10-year "protection" period, at minimum...
...Chrysler is particularly looking to sell cars in fast-growing developing markets, notably China and Russia. But it also expects to increase sales in mature markets, including Western Europe and Japan. In Europe, for instance, it's adding 100 new dealerships to aid that effort. Chrysler executives say their minimum goal is to double foreign sales to 400,000 cars within five years. That's an achievable target, according to Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive of auto research website edmunds.com. "They're looking to double from a low base, so they're giving themselves a little wiggle room...
Congress says it will stop granting such a big minimum of Homeland Security funding to states deemed at low risk of terrorist attack. But take a look at the difference between the old and new spending formulas...
LESS FILLING ... This summer Democrats hailed the passage of new Homeland Security legislation that halves the minimum percentage of federal funding that low-risk states receive, from...
...truth is, if homeland security money were truly distributed based on risk, there would be no guaranteed minimum at all. Guaranteed minimums are useful only for getting states up to speed - or for pork-barrel indulgences. At this point, all states have received enough money to set up a basic emergency infrastructure. So the rational thing to do would be to focus our limited resources on high-density, high-risk locations. But Congress is not rational. The Senate gives disproportionate power to small states, and those states do not want to lose their homeland-security entitlements. So the result...