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...international safeguards. Its nuclear weapons program, meanwhile, is allowed to continue unimpeded, though India has agreed to work with the U.S. towards an international fissile material cut-off treaty. It's a foreign policy triumph that wins India a seat at the nuclear high table while allowing it to refrain from signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The U.S., in return, gets brownie points for bringing two-thirds of India's reactors under IAEA safeguards and, more importantly, forges closer ties with a country it sees as key to balancing China's rising influence in Asia. The deal, many security...
...Bringing back mandatory service has been the refrain of many who want to put the brakes on the Iraq war; if every young man is suddenly a potential grunt on his way to Baghdad, the thinking goes, the war would end rather quickly. It's also an argument made by those who are uneasy that the burden of this war is being unfairly shouldered by the 1.4-million-strong U.S. military and no one else. But a new report from the Congressional Budget Office this week makes clear that resuming the draft would be no panacea...
...Maytag contest, or Building Materials Corp. of America's attempt to bust up the Carlyle Group's buyout of ElkCorp. For PE investors deal jumping was considered a faux pas. "It has long been suspected that there is an unwritten gentleman's agreement among private-equity firms to refrain from jumping each other's deals," said Chris Young, director of M&A research at Institutional Shareholder Services, a highly regarded independent proxy-advisory firm...
Before he took over as British Prime Minister last month, Gordon Brown's speeches often included a familiar refrain. Britain's economy, the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer would thunder, boasted sustainable growth - averaging almost 2.9% over the past decade, modest interest rates and low inflation. "Of all the major economies - America, France, Germany, Japan," Brown boasted late last year, "Britain has enjoyed the longest postwar period of continuous growth...
...this country—face. Hunger is thus an abstract concept, not a daily reality. We think nothing of wine and brie, and, somewhere along the way without realizing it, we begin to assume that we will enjoy these things for the rest of our lives; that to refrain would be strange and maybe even shameful...