Attempting to reassure the unions about pay and conditions in outsourced services, ministers have succeeded in disgruntling private companies.

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Anything else risks disgruntling Christian Democrats, never easy bedfellows with the Socialists, and could tempt them to vote for the right-wing opposition in December.

ECONOMIST: Consternation

If President Obama is remotely serious about saving lives in Congo, then fracturing Rwanda's ability to directly or indirectly harbor warlords, support militia gangs, militarize or ethnicize the wars in Congo for control of Congo's easily appropriable but highly valuable natural resources, is critical -- however politically disgruntling it may be to some in the State Department.

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