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...James Woolsey had just reported to a congressional committee in Washington that the value of Israel's military sales to China over the past 10 years ''may be several billion dollars.'' At a press conference in Beijing, Rabin confirmed that sales had taken place but quibbled about the total: ''All these stories of billions of dollars of arms business in the past 12 years are total nonsense.'' Actually they are not nonsense. As early as December 1978, Eisenberg was in China sizing up business opportunities. According to a senior aide to Menachem Begin, Eisenberg paid a call on the then...
...they spend before the TV exactly as if they were making telephone calls. Bell Atlantic could also provide phone service -- even video phone service -- over TCI's ubiquitous cable wires, and thereby invade the territories of other Baby Bells from coast to coast. ''What we're seeing is the total redefinition of the communications industry,'' says Ken McGee, who studies such trends for the Gartner Group consulting firm. The deal triggered a speculative frenzy on Wall Street, where every phone company suddenly seemed to be on the make and every cable operator looked sweetly enticing. The big gainers among cable...
...moved to do so by televised reports on Jesse and his parents. ''Our baby could not live,'' said Walters, whose son was brain-dead at birth. ''We'd seen their plea on TV, and we figured that if our baby could help them, then it would not be a total loss.'' But what television had failed to reveal was that an infant in Louisville had been waiting even longer for a heart. The parents of Baby Calvin had elected to work quietly through organ-procurement networks rather than seek publicity for their child. Upset that their baby, who should have...
...Obama will admit that the U.S. has a military responsibility to make sure Iraq "doesn't collapse," allowing that his timelines can be adjusted. Similarly, McCain will admit that there is only so far any leader can push against American public opinion, allowing for the possibility of withdrawal before total victory. "When the American people don't support a war," McCain said last year, "then we aren't able to maintain a foreign endeavor...
...Wiimote" on their sites, openly or via more obscure means like customer product tags and posted comments. As a result, says Fobis president John Stephen, since the Wii was released in 2006, the Weemote trademark has been so "diluted" that the Weemote's sales, which are mostly online and total fewer than half a million to date, have fallen considerably. In fact, many Wiimote fans believe it's the Weemote that's guilty of the trademark infringement. "These days," says Stephen, "the little guy like us is wondering, What's the point of trademark protection...