washingtonpost.com
FEDERAL CONTRACTS
States News Service
Monday, July 7, 2003; Page E04
Raytheon Information Systems of Upper Marlboro won a $500 million contract
from NASA for maintenance and development services.
ATT Government Solutions of Vienna won a $76.6 million contract from the
Health
U.S. Firms Eager To Sell in Iraq
Laws, Security Fears Still Major Obstacles
By Jackie Spinner
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 9, 2003; Page E01
At his truck wash off Interstate 90 in Billings, Mont., Don Haugan runs a
little side business making a special industrial cleaner for
Was: Re: Transatlantic rebound on intelligence problems
Apologies for this dialogue with myself, but the BBC reports this morning
that the White House has conceded that the information on which Bush
claimed in the State of the Union address on 29th January that Iraq had
been trying to buy
According to former actor and US president Ronald Reagan, the superior
productivity of American farming, compared to Soviet farming, was a decisive
argument for the superiority of capitalism as a social and economic system.
Yeah.
J.
- Original Message -
From: Michael Pollak [EMAIL
This is yet another insidious measure that double penalizes employees
for flailing or fraudulent corporate performance. Not only have pension
funds been depleted due to negligent or criminal corporate leadership
over the past couple years, but by discounting, or dividing, future
pension
Some comments on selections from Brad DeLong's The Roots of Islamic
Backwardness, which is online at:
http://www.project-syndicate.org/series/series_text.php4?id=1228lang=1
DeLong is an ubiquitous figure in cyberspace, who is on the faculty at
Berkeley and was a former official in the Clinton
The BBC report this morning, which led the world service, omits the fact that the
source Bush cited in the SOU address (is that the right abbreviation?) was the
British government.
I've seen it referred to as the SOTU address, but it's true that it wasn't worth a SOU.
Jim
The USA is writing patent law for countries in Africa.
Drug Patents Draw Scrutiny
As Bush Makes African Visit
By MICHAEL SCHROEDER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON -- In a five-nation African tour this week, President Bush is
trumpeting his $15 billion program to fight the
The lost decade
They were promised a brighter future, but in the 1990s the world's poor
fell further behind
Larry Elliott, economics editor
Wednesday July 9, 2003/The Guardian [U.K.]
The widening gulf between the global haves and have-nots was starkly
revealed last night when the United Nations
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The UN's annual human development report
===
http://hdr.undp.org/
Surf's up.
Right. Dr. Reagan, a trained ag. economist! Soviet agriculture did quite
well considering its unfavorable resource base. Its distribution system
was not up to par. For many crops, Soviet yields were superior to those
of the US, but not their output/hour.
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:00:32AM
London Wed evening.
A senior Whitehall source tonight informed the BBC that the British
government no longer expects to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
(= probably Alastair Campbell)
It has shifted its position by emphasising a more recent statement by Blair
that they will find plans
How much are the pension plans underfunded because companies stripped them
on the assumption that a booming stock market could leave the fund with
adequate money?
nomi prins wrote:
This is yet another insidious measure that double penalizes employees
for flailing or fraudulent corporate
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3919
DNA profiles link dope to its source
19:00 09 July 03
Forensic scientists in the US are applying DNA fingerprinting methods to
the cannabis plant. They say the technique, which is being used to create
a database of DNA profiles of different
Original Message
Subject: Questions on Cuba by Ernesto Cardenal - El Nuevo Diario
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:29:16 -1000
From: Ralph Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Discussions on the Socialist Register and its
articles[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
QUESTIONS ON
In brief
Wednesday July 9, 2003
The Guardian
US regulation at an all-time high
Regulations governing US business reached an all-time high in 2002, the
conservative Cato Institute said yesterday.
More than 75,600 pages were recorded in the official Federal Register in
the second year of President
Eubulides wrote:
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for
originality. There aren't any. [Les Paul]
I once worked for Les Paul and I never heard him say that. I loved his
wife.
From afar.
Gene Coyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/08/03 6:51 AM
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Dean
would certainly be
a great improvement over Bush, but that's a low standard.
But a necessary one, IMHO. There is no point is asking the present-day
Dems to deliver what they haven't. That's a long term
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