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...China would go far to improve the global situation. Even if the current political climate in the U.S. makes it unlikely that we will sign on to the comprehensive, multinational Kyoto Accords, politicians in Washington must find other ways to stem this growing threat. The alternative is that we wring every bit of short-term profit out of American industry while likely sacrificing its long-term health and the health of this planet. If we do not act, fifty years from now we will look back on our train wreck of an environment and wonder why we didn?...
...office. A part of Bush wanted to answer; his father had landed in trouble during a town-hall debate when he fumbled a young woman's question about how the national debt personally affected him. But when you are running a character campaign, Bush felt, you don't wring your hands. So he dodged the question, and Kerry walloped him for doing...
Though Poundstone denies doing so intentionally, she manages to wring considerable humor out of being a felon (one of her best-received jokes is a line about being an important element of her Neighborhood Watch). "All I want is to be entertaining," she says. "I don't have any great lessons to share, except this: get your criminal attorney now. Should something go south, you won't have the luxury of shopping around." --By Michele Orecklin
...seeking diversification. "The acquisition will balance Santander's risk while buying a bank with a critical volume that will allow it to reach the mass market," says Javier Bernat, an analyst with stockbroker Caja Madrid Bolsa. Botín said he would be able to wring cost savings of €450 million from Abbey as well as increasing revenues by €110 million, for a total of €560 million in increased earnings by 2007. This could mean sweeping job cuts at the British lender. Some question whether conservative British customers will remain loyal to the bank once...
...intelligence scoop was the end result of a shift in the military's approach to tracking Saddam that began taking shape in mid-summer. Instead of trying to wring information out of high ranking members of his regime, they began focusing on lower-level functionaries and a small number of families that were believed to be aiding and protecting Saddam. Saddam's so-called "right hand man," who provided valuable information to the search, had been captured in the early morning hours of Dec. 12 in Baghdad. His name has thus far been withheld, but military officials have said that...