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...Give a little, get a little; the rule of politics on any scale. It seems that once they really pay attention, those in charge of the Atlantic alliance reach a strangely optimistic and constructive verdict: too big to fail. And nice to have around...
...billion. Profits of $1.1 billion may sound robust, but Wal-Mart has invested at least $17 billion overseas, giving it a return of just over 6%. "You'd be better off putting the money in a bank-or under a mattress," maintains Richard Hyman, chairman of British retail consultancy Verdict Research. Indeed, in the U.S., Wal-Mart regularly enjoys a return on investment of around...
...some trepidation. Thursday, the Census Bureau made Evans' life a whole lot easier, advising the secretary in no uncertain terms to reject any revised numbers. There is no evidence, the bureau's director told Evans, that adjusted figures would be any more accurate than the original numbers. Evans' final verdict, his aides insist, is not set in stone - and until it is, civil rights leaders and Democrats will pepper his office with statements opposing the bureau's recommendation...
Former Arizona Governor John Fife Symington sent his application directly to the White House three weeks before Clinton left office. In 1997 the Republican was convicted of fraud and forced out of office. The verdict was overturned, but prosecutors have been weighing whether to retry the case. Some Arizonans think the pardon was payback: Symington saved Clinton from drowning at a '60s beach party...
...supposed to be a really big day for the Miami Herald. After two months of squinting and peering at half-perforated and slightly dented ballots, a band of ballot-counters hired by the newspaper to comb through Dade County's so-called "undervotes" were ready to hand over a verdict...