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...Arab neighbors are also struggling to respond. Although no Arab leader from a confrontation state has publicly praised Rabin's pledge to speed negotiations, or accepted his call to an immediate summit, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak invited the Prime Minister to Cairo this week to encourage and reward Israel's moderation. Deep political divisions in the Arab world, sharpened by Jordan's decision to side with Saddam Hussein in the gulf war, are responsible for the limp response; Arab leaders do not trust one another and need time to grope toward a common approach to the Rabin...
...American Dream is not so easy to achieve these days. In the century since Edison, Ford, Bell and Watson turned simple ideas into products and technologies that transformed society, entrepreneurship in America has become more complicated, less nimble. In capitalism's grand struggle between risk and reward, the forces of caution and liability have subtly, sadly, gained the upper hand. It is not enough just to have a good idea. These days one must know the intricacies of corporate finance, government regulation, patent protection, pricing strategy and sophisticated marketing. And even then, in the utility industry anyway, resistance to change...
...movement." There is a movement through his family's Southern history, but it is a movement through a larger history as well. The material for a few of his poems are salve narrative and documents; the introductory poem of his thesis is an advertisement for two lost slaves, titled "Reward," and the closing poem is a "Letter to President Jefferson, Care of Our Forefathers." In the final poem he writes...
...encouragement companies get from their countries' political leaders. Governments can exert enormous influence over how aggressively businesses take the environment into account, using sticks and carrots -- sticks in the form of tough standards for products and manufacturing processes, carrots consisting of tax breaks and other incentives that reward innovation...
...midst of an intensive police investigation, Exxon announced last week that it would offer a "substantial reward" for information leading to the executive's safe return. There are no allegations that Reso, a stable family man who has spent holidays working behind soup-kitchen counters, is off on a scam of his own. "There's nothing to indicate a voluntary disappearance," said a spokeswoman in the Morris County prosecutor's office. Law-enforcement officials indirectly acknowledged receipt of a ransom note after the New York Post reported that a letter claiming responsibility for Reso's abduction had been issued...