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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.
It was Republicans, more than Democrats, who tried unsuccessfully to derail the CDA in Congress.
Another WSJ front-page piece notes that while the current economic differential between the U.S. and the leading Asian economies will amp our trade deficit somewhat, few think the Asian crisis will derail America's current economic expansion--because the other major legs of the economy, like consumer confidence, business profits and government expenditures, are robust.
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.