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Sometimes I put my faith in sectarian rivalries, which helped derail the most recent proposed school-prayer amendment to the Constitution.
The NYT and LAT emphasize this "we've come a long way" angle, noting that one of Trimble's deputies helped derail the last attempt at a shared local government 25 years ago (the NYT says Trimble was also involved).
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.
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.
He was studiously neutral, utterly unflappable and unfailingly optimistic as bombs, killings and expulsions threatened to derail the peace process.