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...Heights, which Israel captured in the 1967 war. He had told Clinton, he said, that Syria was ready to establish "peaceful, normal relations with Israel in return for Israel's full withdrawal from the Golan," as spelled out in several U.N. Security Council resolutions. That sounds like a simple swap, but Israel has not agreed to withdraw completely. Rabin wants to pull back in stages over several years, testing in the process whether Syria's idea of peace includes diplomatic relations, open borders, free trade and tourism...
...best technique we at Dartboard witnessed was the combination of exotica. One confident undergrad revealed to an investment bank that he had devoted his academic career to swap derivatives, which he believed complemented his other talent: fluent Mandarin Chinese...
With the Quad as it was first conceived, such divisions would be plastered over. The Freshman Union would be renovated, and everyone would be happy. Folklore and Mythology could swap tales with Women's Studies. Classics professors could find out what they had in common with their colleagues in Afro-Am. Those crazy folks in Comparative Religion could get together with all kinds of students and professors on the weekends and have a sort of, well, mind-expanding session...
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. agreed to acquire financially troubled Borden Inc. K.K.R. will swap $2 billion of its holdings in R.J.R. Nabisco in exchange for all of Borden's outstanding stock. In a second part of the transaction, R.J.R. will issue additional new shares worth $500 million to Borden in exchange for a 20% stake in the company. The arrangement, which is still pending final agreement, would dilute K.K.R.'s holdings of R.J.R. Nabisco, the % company it bought for $25 billion in 1989 in the most expensive takeover in history, from...
...settle for what the Americans offered in the first place: a narrow agreement on immigration. They got nowhere on the issue that Castro blames most for his economic problems: the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo. The deal sealed in New York last Friday amounted to a simple swap: the U.S. will take in at least 20,000 legal Cuban immigrants each year, and Havana will halt the wave of boats and rafts that have carried 35,000 would-be refugees north from its beaches this year...