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...their self-interest actually is. He has made the case that money has so debased politics in America that every politician is personally debased as well. And, finally, that if they can do something that the voters might actually perceive as statesmanlike, those same voters will reward them at the ballot...
...great difficulty for resuming negotiations. And among ordinary Palestinians, there is a great deal of anger toward the Israelis and the Americans because the suffering under the Israeli closure of Palestinian areas is very intense. So for Arafat to try and stop the violence, he will demand a reward, something he can take to the Palestinian people and say, here is the prize for stopping the violence. The name of the game in the Middle East is if you want Arafat to do something, you have to do something...
...episode. Week 10 opened in full-on doomed-romance mode, our eight remaining castaways rain-besotted, running out of rice, and just waiting around for another Kucha to take it on the chin. Keith was spouting, Rodger and Tina were bonding, Nick had a bumpy tongue. And then the reward challenge arrived - which of course involved a sumptuous buffet, somewhere - and the Baramundians needed to split into four guy-girl teams. Just pick 'em out of a hat like good summer campers, right...
...industry is trying to do. The industry built a fleet of leviathans in the '90s, which led to a glut and depressed prices last year. So now it has launched an aggressive campaign to grab a piece of the more than $20 billion corporate-meeting and incentive (or employee-reward) business...
Cost can be a factor. Kinko's, which has chartered ships to reward employees, considered holding a meeting on board. But, according to a spokesperson, "after some research, we learned we'd spend a fortune on just e-mail and checking our voice mail." Ship-to-shore phone charges range from $7.50 to $9 a minute. As for e-mail, setting up an individual account on a Carnival ship costs $3.95; receiving e-mail is $3.95; and surfing the Web runs 75[cents] a minute. Other costs include port fees and tips...