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...firm heading into bankruptcy) was the principal organizer of the overthrow. He owns 7 million shares of the company's stock but has taken no official role on the board. He has backed Maillot's plan to renegotiate with creditors, raise Chunnel charges, increase productivity (without layoffs), and obtain some compromise form of government aid such as a debt guarantee. Sounds nice, but Rémon and others call that plan as unrealistically rosy as the original Eurotunnel projections. French and British officials scoff at ideas of state aid, and Maillot is hardly in a position to dictate to banks...
...proposed an amendment that would have eliminated the H Bomb allocation, referred to the extensive national media attention—from outlets such as CNN, Fox News and The New York Times—as evidence that H Bomb should easily be able to obtain funding outside of Harvard...
...Regardless of how much marijuana Mr. Schaffer had, nothing was going to prevent us from charging him with possession with intent to distribute,” Catalano said. But if Schaffer only possessed marijuana, police would have to obtain a summons before making an arrest...
...Bank of America and auditing houses Grant Thornton and Deloitte & Touche also face indictment (they deny wrongdoing). Prosecutors hope to skip the preliminary hearing and obtain rapid convictions in a case that has eroded confidence in Italian industry and finance. Another important delivery arrived last week, as state-appointed executor Enrico Bondi presented his bailout plan. He hopes to sell all noncore businesses and reduce Parmalat's brands from 120 to 30 (concentrating on fruit juices and, of course, milk). Prosecutors in Milan are expected to seek more trials, under normal timetables, against other suspects. T-Mobile's Berry...
...President Kerry intends to win more support for American foreign policy abroad by insulting those governments that have stood by us thus far. There are now 10,000 troops, representing several European allies, under Polish command in southern Iraq. The Poles, for their part, have not been able to obtain the same privileged visa-free status that French and German travelers now hold to enter the U.S. This remains State Department policy in spite of the fact that France and Germany, unlike Poland, are known to have terrorist cells operating on their soil. Polish companies have found lucrative reconstruction contracts...