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Senators revealed information the FBI had promised to keep secret. Others said agency reports were worthless anyway...
...think this philosophy makes him more moderate or receptive to others' ideas: Since standards are worthless, he has explicitly announced that he sees no need to live by any theory he may advocate. Such excesses are what prompted the anti-PC movement in the first place, and it would be naive to expect them to disappear just because liberal professors have started a formal organization...
...belonging to Beijing-controlled companies, giving China a bitter taste of the risks of capitalism. In Egypt the government fired the board of the country's B.C.C.I. affiliate and sought to recover $400 million in frozen assets. In Nigeria officials said they would provide $16 million to cover now worthless letters of credit from B.C.C.I. The shutdown even torpedoed shipping around the world. The Wall Street Journal reported that $85 million worth of freight sat stranded on some 1,000 ships because the purchasers could not use credit that B.C.C.I. had provided...
...badly either. Even though owners of TWA's common stock would get nothing under the proposed deal, Icahn, who owns 90% of the stock, will benefit. Another portion of the agreement gives most of the stock in the restructured firm to owners of TWA's mostly worthless bonds. As the airline's largest bondholder, Icahn will receive a 20% stake in the company. He has agreed to pay $35 million for bonds and stock worth an additional 25%. All in all, Icahn has managed an impressive financing feat, maintaining control and getting 45% of a healthier company for a pittance...
...crucial step toward political sovereignty is liberation of the economy from the all-but-worthless ruble. The Balts have arranged to print their own money in the West, but they have not dared put it into circulation since that might provoke a full-scale crackdown by the Kremlin. Meanwhile, the Ukraine is about to start distributing specially stamped rubles that can be spent only inside the republic, where goods are cheaper and more plentiful than elsewhere in the U.S.S.R. The Ukrainian ruble will thus be, de facto, a separate currency. In addition, the parliament is moving to privatize property...