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...Organize a bipartisan summit on the budget. Balance...
...from a San Francisco store would make the business profitable. "Even if we're off by 20%," Ross says, "we still break even and we pay back the loan." That loan wasn't easy to come by. Ross says he was rejected by six banks before an independent lender, Summit Bank in Oakland, agreed to put up $1.9 million. "I had to get help from the landlord, my brother, refinance my house and use all my savings," Ross says. "We've risked everything...
...easy to host all these countries. It's particularly not easy to host, perhaps, me." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in a press conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, site of a 34-nation Summit of the Americas, where anti-Iraq-war protesters, calling Bush a "fascist" and a "terrorist," threw Molotov cocktails and set a building on fire...
...Bush and Chavez never spoke to one another. Chavez owned the streets, delivering an anti-American harangue to a rally of 25,000, but he never owned the Summit itself. Even the nations that oppose the FTAA in its present form-the Mercosur trading bloc which includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay-made it clear that they weren't opposed to some kind of agreement...
...White House officials are, not surprisingly, downplaying the outcome of the Summit. They are instead encouraging the idea that the talking itself was a victory of sorts. Aboard Air Force One, National Security Adviser Steven Hadley told reporters that "It's not deadlocked." He added, "We went from a summit which was supposed to bury FTAA to a summit ... in which all 34 countries actually talk in terms of enhanced trade and an FTAA." That's putting a rosy tint on it, but for the administration it will have...