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...decided, under terms of international treaties, by a panel of arbitrators, chosen in this case by the U.S. State Department and Methanex, meeting behind closed doors. A U.S. loss could be challenged in federal court--but only on narrow procedural grounds. Critics fear that a Methanex win would upend the principle that "the polluter pays." Instead, the polluter would be paid. A California senate committee questioned whether hundreds of state and local laws--from fishing-fleet fees to truck-inspection rules to a preference for recycled paper--could be challenged by foreign investors. Says state senator Sheila Kuehl: "A secret...
...financial press. Given that the business world's most prominent figures include people like Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan, this is perhaps not surprising, nor unappreciated. But leave it to Jack Welch, who pioneered so much else during his two decades as the chief executive of General Electric, to upend tradition...
...REEBOK, WOMEN DEFY They're not quite strong. They're hardly invincible. They are...men. In spots that upend the male-female sports dynamic, male dancers shake their booties at a women's basketball game, female bodybuilders laugh at a feeble guy at the gym, and Missy Elliott raps, "It's a woman's world." Hear her roar...
...precise and highly evocative. Charlotte details the reawakening of her memory: “The boredom and stasis of my present circumstances were driving me to retrospect in the desultory way that a person cooped up in an old house will eventually make her way to the attic and upend a few boxes.” Egan’s tone shifts, often humorously, to reflect the personality of the character on whose behalf she writes, as when Charlotte talks of New York nightclubs in which “mere unhappiness was about as welcome as an overweight cousin from...
...Crimson takes care of Brown in Saturday’s opener, it may get another chance to upend the Knights in the semifinal and make a repeat appearance at Easterns...