Hints and tips:
...The company sought a list of allied nations that the US wouldn’t object to seeing deploy Graphite....
...Yet shareholders, rivals and even some HSBC executives say privately that Beijing’s involvement — or at least support — can’t be ruled out....
...I don’t see how this ends. It may just be a day or three of military drills around the island but we’re in a new period,” says Culver....
...That clearly didn’t happen here.” Johnstone said the Japanese position illustrated how China had miscalculated....
...“I would not be asking for this exception . . . if I did not believe this moment in our history didn’t call for it,” said Mr Biden, adding that both he and Mr Austin believed in the importance of civilian...
...“I didn’t know and I feel I would have known,” said a person close to him....
...This isn’t a case for not taking on debt right now, but more a case for not pretending that it won’t matter at some point in the future. To me, the trick is to make sure it’s productive debt....
...Europe doesn't want to give up the whole idea of strategic autonomy just because the US is back.”...
...Michèle Flournoy is better qualified than Austin to be secretary of defence and she would not have needed a waiver....
...Ms Flournoy’s recommendation is that America should strengthen its military capacity, so as to restore deterrence....
...Samantha Power as secretary of state, Lael Brainard as secretary of the Treasury, Mayor Pete for Homeland Security, someone like Ray McGuire for Commerce, Jim Mattis or Leon Panneta for Defence (I don’t...
...Michèle Flournoy, a former under secretary of defence, is tipped as a likely Pentagon chief....
...are we leaving Iraq or not speaks to absence of a normal, rigorous [National Security Council] co-ordination process [and] lack of any consideration of the second or third order effects,” said Michele Flournoy...
...“We made assumptions that we wouldn’t go back into Iraq. We are back in Iraq. Here we are worried about Russia again. So I think we should be very careful and mindful of the decisions we’re making.”...
...“Holding this mission to an arbitrary egg-timer doesn’t make a lick of sense strategically,” said Buck McKeon, the Republican chair of the House armed services committee....
...“Kerry was almost certainly a better choice than Rice,” he said, “and, for my money, Michele Flournoy [a former senior Pentagon official] would be a better choice than Hagel.”...
...But as far as I can tell, the political part of that strategy still isn’t there.”...
...The US is to begin a year-long review in how to change its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay people serving in the military – a change promised by Barack Obama, president, in his State of the Union speech...
...He just doesn’t have much depth on some issues.”...
...In comparison, Sprint’s larger rivals, Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Britain’s Vodafone group added 1.1m new monthly contract subscribers in the second quarter and AT&T...
...The company has been losing ground to AT&T Mobile and Verizon Wireless, its larger rivals....
...“[Maliki] can’t possibly be happy with the outcome here....
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