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Against No. 18 Dartmouth on Saturday, however, the Crimson couldn't pull the trigger, losing to the Big Green in overtime...
Barring another, more serious meltdown, analysts consider it unlikely that the tumult in Asia will trigger a major market correction in the U.S. But that doesn't mean it won't have a lasting impact. David Hale of Zurich Kemper Investments predicts a surge of up to 25% in Asian imports made cheap by devaluation and a contraction in U.S. exports of as much as 15%. The result could be that the U.S. trade deficit, now $191 billion, would balloon to as much $300 billion next year and fan a protectionist outcry...
Stunts like this are why even many Silicon Valley libertarians secretly hope Justice reins in Gates before it's too late. Klein confirmed last week that his investigation of Microsoft remains "ongoing and wide-ranging." Microsoft's planned integration of Explorer into Windows 98 could trigger the most critical antitrust battle since the feds broke up Ma Bell in '84. Gates understands that the browser is the soul of the new machine that will carry us all into the 21st century, and he won't back down. "The point of antitrust law," Myhrvold argues, "is to say, 'Is there...
...Southeast Asia crisis is just a trigger," he said. "Something would have come along at some point. This is what came along...
...Means Committee this week, but he has refused to budge on a central Republican demand: that his department relinquish some of its control of the IRS to an oversight board made up mostly of private citizens. So as long as the bill includes the oversight board, it will trigger a Clinton veto. And the Republicans will begin crafting their...