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...corporate downsizing and structural unemployment, the tax abatements are used rather differently. States and municipalities now actively lure companies away from other locations with huge incentive packages that often cover the company's entire start-up costs and moving expenses. With job creation a political sine qua non, cities and states are forced into ever more costly bidding wars for businesses...
...came to agree after a few minutes of argument that a dog was more servant than slave, though I maintained that compensation for this sort of service was arguable, built into the dog's existence qua dog, its naturally lower status...
...clear to NBC that its only chance of keeping Letterman was to dump Leno as Tonight host and give Letterman the job -- something NBC executives had publicly ruled out. What's more, a "poison pill" in Letterman's CBS contract made the 11:30 time period a virtual sine qua non of any deal. The CBS contract promised Letterman a $50 million penalty payment if his show was not aired at 11:30. Since NBC, to keep Letterman, was required to match CBS's monetary deal, it would have had to include the same penalty payment -- effectively forcing the network...
...obvious even that early that the coup was ill planned and curiously halfhearted. The plotters neglected to carry out that sine qua non of successful coups: the immediate arrest of popular potential enemies before they could begin organizing a resistance. In particular, the failure to make sure that Yeltsin was taken into custody (there were some reports that an attempt at an arrest was made, but botched) was fatal. Inexplicably, the putschists did not even pull the plug on the communications of anyone except Gorbachev. Bush and other foreign leaders were amazed at how easily they could get through...
Part of it is a question of style. Contemporary peace activists might be naive and intellectually slovenly, but they are dissenters, and dissent is both sine qua non and proof positive of a functioning democracy...