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...into lifting its draconian sanctions on Iraq in a forthcoming vote. And he might have achieved this if he had just kept quiet. The U.S. and Britain were the only two permanent members of the Security Council bound to vote to sustain the sanctions. Russia wants Iraq to repay $6 billion in prewar military debts; France seeks to resume lucrative commercial ties with Baghdad; China has weapons to sell to Iraq. "You think they'd be on their best behavior when the U.N. has their fate in their hands," a Navy officer said, "but no, the Iraqis do just...
America fled Somalia after 18 Army Rangers died because the cost of the operation became apparent. But there was a more visceral reaction propelling our retreat: a sense of betrayal. Here we are doing this for the Somalis, for no benefit to ourselves, and this is how they repay us! To hell with the ingrates...
Hence his national-service program, an echo of the G.I. Bill, aimed at working kids, who would repay their schooling with community service. Hence the crime bill he fought desperately to save, a $30 billion potpourri of prisons and cops, of therapists and social workers turned loose on the ordinary American's No. 1 nightmare: crime. Hence the piece de resistance of Clinton's activist vision: health care "that cannot be taken away." It addresses the quintessential middle-class fear: losing what...
...rationale for corporate nolo contendere is that the offending company must be kept sound enough to repay its victims via the settlement. If it were forced to plead guilty, the firm would be subjected to a flood of further lawsuits that could sink it. Given the number of companies that take advantage of this opportunity, we could start a pretty good nolo mutual fund...
Health-care giant to repay $6.2 million in Florida overcharges...