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If Exxon took over Mobil--the most likely scenario, experts say--the resultant company could be worth $160 billion, says the WP . Though both Exxon and Mobil stocks leaped at the news, the WP uses paragraph two to cite cautious experts who worry that various factors--among them the "intense, independent personalities of the two firms' chief executives"--could yet derail the deal.
Even his latest act of spite, the attempt to derail William Weld's nomination as ambassador to Mexico, is being interpreted charitably by conservative pundits as a sign of Helms' commitment to a tough anti-drug policy.
But if government can't reroute the freight train in a better direction, it's hard to see how it can derail it.
And Yeltsin's attack on the Parliament was, in my view, a necessary evil, given the Communist Party's continuing attempt to derail democratization and market reform.
Although this year's dispute may be more intense and the final margins closer than last year's, Congress will not derail China's MFN status unless Beijing commits an act of monumental folly over the next few weeks.