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There are also powerful profits to be made from quality merchandise featuring barnyard critters. Neither company discloses itemized financial records, but industry analysts estimate that last year the stores' revenue was $465 million for Disney, $380 million for Warner. These are robust figures; they amount to 54% of Disney's total domestic box-office take and 39% of Warner's. Not bad for a fledgling industry where the flop factor is reduced and the stars aren't paid $10 million a picture...
Clinton's best bet would be to decouple the trade and human-rights issues entirely. Taiwan and South Korea prove that political liberalization follows prosperity. As a vibrant economy creates a robust middle class, ordinary citizens increasingly seek to influence government actions, pressure that even authoritarians must eventually accommodate. Revoking MFN would restrain China's economic growth, thus causing democracy's prospects to suffer...
...strikes to enable his military observers to withdraw from the battlefield. But Akashi, who was in the Bosnian Serb headquarters in Pale trying to resuscitate negotiations, was not willing to approve the request. The next day when the Serbs began encircling Gorazde, Rose and Akashi called for "fairly robust air cover," according to a senior White House official. When a Serb tank fired on a hospital, injuring several people, Rose and Akashi upped their request to "close air support." But when NATO aircraft went in search of targets, bad weather forced the planes to fly low, which in turn resulted...
Gallows humor? No: a robust fascination with the depths of human experience. "John is actually more normal than he wants people to think he is," says Patricia Hearst -- yes, that Patty Hearst, once an heiress on the lam, now a regular in Waters' movies...
...robust U.S. economy is rattling the financial markets...