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U.S. manufacturers, moreover, inevitably acquire a vested interest in improving the accuracy and reliability of Chinese rockets, since failures, such as the 1996 crash that destroyed Loral and Hughes satellites, are very costly.
Critics on the right dismissed the tour as a simplistic photo op, and Peter Edelman, a former Clinton official who quit to protest the 1996 welfare reform, called it cosmetic, arguing that Clinton "cannot admit the extent of the problem because his Administration has a vested interest in the notion that welfare reform has been a success."
Moreover, I now have a vested interest in this matter--I've spent about seven years with this lady now--so I want to be objective in my prognostications.
setting priorities and distinguishing between short term, high-impact initiatives and longer term objectives that require more vested interest; and
As workers, like, err, Microsoft employees for instance, get vested with options (convertible to stock), or get to buy stock at a discounted rate (typically 15 percent of that day's market price), it's hard to say where the "capitalist class" ends and the "proletariat" begins.