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So, when the Kurds came under Iraqi attack again, in 1991, there was good reason to fear that another genocide was in the offing (although President Bush's real motivation was defending the stability of Turkey, where the Kurds were fleeing).
Ralph Nader, for example, notes that if Office Max now supports the merger, which it does, that makes you wonder how much real competition is in the offing.
But what's interesting is that even if you set the question of overvaluation aside--and it is a much more complicated question than anyone at the Times ever seems to acknowledge--and accept that some form of market correction is in the offing, it's really not clear that a major correction would have such a dramatic impact on the economy as a whole.
But a rise in labor costs without a concomitant rise in labor productivity is generally taken as a sign that inflationary pressures are in the offing.
But even if Lott's motive for offing McCain-Feingold remains as powerful as ever, carrying out the hit no longer looks so simple.