The people of Central Europe now have a chance to overcome a Cold War dividing line that has cut them off from the European mainstream.
My favorite entrepreneur-turned-academician, Jeff Sandefer, one of the founders of the Austin Texas based Acton MBA that offers a degree in entrepreneurship, actually teaches students how to bargain, cut deals, make cold calls, and the like.
Most EU nations have cut defence spending in the post Cold War years.
It is hoped the retailers will bring their expertise in logistics and cold-chain warehousing to modernise Indian farming and cut food prices.
The START II treaty and the framework we have already agreed to for START III could cut them by 80 percent from their Cold War height.
While many motorists can reduce their driving to avoid high gasoline prices, the lawmakers said heating oil consumers can't cut back on heating their home during the cold months.
Hurt by falling demand for its office and hotel properties, plus pricey investments in cold storage and residential development, Crescent Real Estate Equities cut its earnings outlook for 2001 by 13% and its dividend by 32% in October.
Under Rumsfeld's plans to "transform" the military with more lethal, more mobile and lighter weapons, the Cold War-era Crusader has been highly vulnerable to a budget cut.
He accepted governments choose where the axe should fall when cutting public spending but said the decision about whether to "carry on with Labour's planned cut in the winter fuel payment... and cold weather payment, was a difficult one".
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The cut-off point for payments is 31 March, so if the cold spell continues into April, these payments will not be made.
So even as we were in Grant Park that night celebrating as much hope and possibility as we felt on that cold day in January on the National Mall, we knew we had our work cut out for us.
President Yeltsin and I agreed in Helsinki to a road map for the START treaties to cut our nuclear arsenals over the next decade by 80 percent from their Cold War peaks, and actually to destroy the warheads so they can never used for destructive ends.
It'll cut down on energy consumption by acting as an insulating blanket in both hot and cold weather.
Something akin to the defense contracting boom triggered by the start of the Cold War may be in the offing, especially when a cash-strapped government needs to cut back on big-ticket hardware.
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"It does cut both ways, it allows people to say, 'Oh it's been cold locally, that must mean temperatures are not rising', " he said.
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