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• Known and unknown dangers

  - 2006-03-22

  LOOKING BEYOND the "usual suspects for global mischief-making, there are potential crises that could both truly surprise us in 2006 and prove enormously disruptive to our interests and well-being. Three profoundly different states offer an aperture into what could become nasty and dangerous surprises. Only one--Iraq--is an obvious candidate. Nigeria...

  Tags: Government, Iraq, Nigeria, SOFTWARE, U.S., U.S. Congress, upshot

• Mergers and acquisitions

  - 2005-06-22

  TALK ABOUT empire has become a cliche. Historians and economists busy themselves comparing America's contemporary role with Rome, Napoleonic France and imperial Britain. They assume that empire is the only model for a state seeking to project power and influence--ignoring alternatives from the business world. After all, businesses confront many...

  Tags: America, China, Europe, European Court, FINANCE, Investment, M&A, merger, U.S., upshot

• Pentagon redirects priorities in chemical-biological defense.(Domestic Threats)

  - 2005-03-01

  The Pentagon will broaden the scope of its chemical and biological defense programs, in an effort to prepare for future domestic emergencies, officials say. Major concerns are the Defense Department's inability to respond to a mass-casualty biological attack and to keep adequate supplies...

  Tags: Biotechnology, Government, HEALTHCARE, Pentagon, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, upshot, vaccine

• About-Face in Iraq

  - 2003-11-24

  Paul Bremer's job sounds straightforward, at least. It is to transform Iraq from a dangerous muddle into a democratic model. But last week the dapper career diplomat got a faceful of Iraqi democracy, laced with a lot of smoke and cordite, from the very Governing Council he created and once...

  Tags: administration, Bush, democracy, Iraq, occupation, Saddam, U.S., upshot, White House

• Should Hezbollah Be Next?

  - 2003-11-01

  THE A TEAM On September 20, 2001, in a historic speech to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush famously declared, "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, Arab, attack, Government, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, SECURITY, Syria, U.S., upshot

• Mission unlimited.(The Mission: Waging War and Keeping the Peace with America's Military)(Book Review)

  - 2003-10-01

  THE MISSION: WAGING WAR AND KEEPING THE PEACE WITH AMERICA'S MILITARY BY DANA PRIEST * W. W. NORTON & COMPANY * 384 PAGES * $26.95 A PRINCIPAL DEFICIENCY OF THE ARGUMENT against the Iraq War was that the war's opponents, like the...

  Tags: Afghanistan, America, Europe, Government, Pentagon, Priest, U.S., upshot

• Munitions sector 'in trouble,' despite new funds: Defense department warned about problems with declining supplier base. (Analysis).

  - 2001-12-01

  An influx of new money at the Pentagon will help replenish cruise missiles and satellite-guided bombs, but it will not necessarily fix industrial base problems in the ammunition sector, sources said. Companies such as Raytheon and Boeing are working to ramp up production of...

  Tags: Afghanistan, analysis, bomb, missile, Pentagon, Strategy, supplier, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, upshot

• What remains of monetarism?(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2001-10-01

  13 In October 1979 the Federal Reserve, in an attempt to curb double-digit inflation, announced that it would place more weight on monetary aggregates in policy deliberations. This policy shift helped reduce inflation but sent the economy into a recession. Three years ...

  Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, income, inflation, Mayer, Nelson, U.S., upshot

• What remains of monetarism?

  - 2001-10-01

  In October 1979 the Federal Reserve, in an attempt to curb double-digit inflation, announced that it would place more weight on monetary aggregates in policy deliberations. This policy shift helped reduce inflation but sent the economy into a recession. Three years later the Fed abandoned monetary targets and returned to...

  Tags: analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, income, inflation, Mayer, Nelson, U.S., upshot

• PERISCOPE: Trimble Seeks U.S. Pressure on Sinn Fein

  - 2000-01-04

  O'Dowd, Niall Irish Voice 01-04-2000 PERISCOPE: Trimble Seeks U.S. Pressure on Sinn Fein By Niall O'Dowd NORTHERN Ireland First Minister David Trimble met President Clinton in the Oval Office this week in Washington in a Unionist version of a...

  Tags: Games, president, U.S., upshot, White House