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...satellite TV provider in the U.S. but still a boutique business when it comes to all the TV sets in the land. But Murdoch, whose slate of Fox TV products currently rides the backs of rival delivery systems, is eagerly looking for a friendly platform from which he can pump as many Fox channels into American homes - with their due dose of placement and promotion - as he can dream up. And DirecTV fits that bill...
...foreign-policy issues, the future seems to augur continental drift, if not an outright split. Though bound together by a military alliance and $1 billion in daily trade, Europe and the United States are increasingly marching to different beats?and there will be moments when the Bush Administration will pump up the volume. ?The new administration has experienced people at the top,? says one E.U. official. ?But many of them do not understand the Europe of today...
...stopgap: renew the Clinton Administration's order that power and gas companies across the country transfer their excess capacity to the Golden State. But diplomacy may be the most effective arrow in Bush's quiver. He plans to place energy on the national-security agenda and lobby OPEC to pump more oil. Although the cartel last week announced production cuts, which pushed prices higher, some key members, such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, remain grateful to Bush's father for winning the Gulf War. Will they help...
...fact is the world's richest man. The bearded guy who just skidded awkwardly by on the icy sidewalk - Saudi oil minister Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, who with a couple of words into his a cell phone could drive up the price of gasoline at your local pump by 20 cents within a month...
...persuading the judge to sentence Rivas to 17 consecutive, rather than concurrent, life sentences. Says Coons: "This is the kind of person who might take a hurt bird to the hospital and would never hurt Granny unless she said you can't have the car, and then he would pump her full of lead." The gang is accused of murdering a policeman who tried to stop their assault on a sporting-goods store to steal weapons and cash. They shot him six times in the head, four in the arm and once in the back, then they used the getaway...