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...same. Support for the merger within HP has climbed to 65% from its 55% low, according to internal polling. (That HP has taken internal polls shows just how dicey things were.) And Hewlett's fellow board members have been increasingly eager to point out that Fiorina is not riding roughshod over them. "It's unfair to say this is Carly's deal," says Bob Knowling, a former CEO of Covad. "Compaq just makes a tremendous amount of sense. Two plus two can equal five...
...Secretary by surprise. He doesn't disagree that the treaty is fatally flawed, "but the manner of handling it is another matter," says a top State official. As Powell told TIME, "That's one where, you know, I would have done it differently." His preference is not to ride roughshod over treaties that most of the globe supports if he can find a more subtle way to advance American interests. He told the still nettled Europeans in mid-July that a replacement proposal would emerge by October. Ten days later, Rice declared there was no fixed date, much less...
...Secretary by surprise. He doesn't disagree that the treaty is fatally flawed, "but the manner of handling it is another matter," says a top State official. As Powell told TIME, "That's one where, you know, I would have done it differently." His preference is not to ride roughshod over treaties that most of the globe supports if he can find a more subtle way to advance American interests. He told the still nettled Europeans in mid-July that a replacement proposal would emerge by October. Ten days later, Rice declared there was no fixed date, much less...
Last week Wall Street dared to dream of a summer rally, of the roughshod running of bulls, finally, over bears, but when the second quarter's 1,500-company Normandy of corporate earnings was over, nobody could call it anything but a bloody draw. Most popular headline phrase: "Mixed Signals...
...from the GOP, Vermont Senator James Jeffords could be forgiven for feeling a little like chaos theory's oft-cited chrysalis. After all, relations between the U.S. and its allies - never minds its strategic competitors - had sunk to their lowest point in recent memory as the Bush administration rode roughshod over the concerns of its allies on everything from missile defense and China policy to climate change. Now, with the switch of a single party affiliation, U.S. foreign policy is a whole new ballgame...