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...Yeltsin-era bonhomie between the erstwhile enemies is over. An American private citizen, identified by ABC News as retired Navy captain Edmond Pope, was arrested Thursday on charges of espionage, and is awaiting trial in the notorious Lefortovo prison. A Russian associate was arrested along with him, in a swoop on what Moscow's Federal Security Service (FSB) says was a spying operation on an advanced Russian submarine program. Pope reportedly works for the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State University, which has contracts with the Office of Naval Research...
...public - a state of affairs that could eventually result in a mass loss of confidence when the market wakes up and sees the impending effects of the rate rises. Instead, they say, Greenspan should hike rates by one percent and shock the market to its senses in one fell swoop...
...born here, and his grandfather represented the state in the U.S. Senate. Still, Connecticut got onboard the Straight Talk Express early. Before South Carolina and Michigan voted, polls showed McCain surging to a 13-point lead. The state is winner-take-all, so that's 25 delegates in one swoop...
...they were worth. They sent me catalogs, and I didn't want anything in them. It was annoying." He saw an opportunity to give consumers more of a choice in how companies rewarded them for purchases, and to grease the wheels of the burgeoning Internet economy, all in one swoop. Beenz.com launched in March 1999, and by August 150 companies were signed up to accept the new tokens...
...consumer in its various global markets. Atlanta was criticized last year for reacting too slowly to a series of consumer crises in Europe, which dented the company's image. "It may be a good strategy for the new CEO to take the big bath in one fell swoop and then move on," says Saporito. "But it's obviously going to be a huge blow in Atlanta." Indeed, some 2,500 residents of that city may soon not feel much like buying the world a Coke...