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...billion to subsidize newcomers through 2006. That amounts to less than .15% of their GDP, and the financing after 2006 is still to be decided. Under such abstemious rules, enlargement is certain to produce losers as well as winners. Currently protected industries like steel, food and telecoms will suffer as national tariffs and subsidies are cut, while small companies may find themselves becoming part of the food chain for foreign invaders - or going bust because they can't afford E.U. safety and environmental standards. Among the biggest losers will be farmers, who have become enlargement's most vocal opponents. They...
...their fate as [Hussein] came in and killed large numbers of them.” The United States, he said, “cannot walk away from them,” and it “cannot forget that we are not blameless in the misery under which they suffer and we must continue to support them...
Collective litigation, on the other hand, does not seem to suffer the same legal burden as litigation brought by individuals. In the aggregate, juries may not need to second guess individual decisions; attorneys need only show that populations of people would not have chosen to smoke with full disclosure of information. The ultimate test of this distinction will not come until the first appeals of this type are decided, but there is certainly potential for success. As Goldman Sachs tobacco analyst Marc Cohen points out when analyzing the legal threats of individual and collective lawsuits, “The real...
Rather than arousing our indignation at big tobacco, money-hungry litigation distracts us from the nefarious practices most in need of reform. As greedy copycats line up for a piece of the pie, the truly effective collective suits may suffer an undeserved fallout. No matter how big the price tag looks, if collective action falls by the wayside, tobacco companies will have won without even trying...
While it is never pleasurable to suffer a loss, a rebound win against No. 11 Northeastern on Wednesday will prove to pollsters that the Crimson is a legitimate national contender. Harvard has beaten Northeastern each of the past two years, including a come-from-behind overtime victory last season...