White House Tries to Tamp Down Trade War Fears as China Retaliates

David L. Phillips: "Michael Flynn faces possible fraud and money-laundering charges for failing to disclose a payment of $530,000 from the Turkish government. He could also face conspiracy and kidnapping charges.... Knowing there is a potential presidential pardon in the works could dissuade Flynn from telling the truth as a cooperating witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation."

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What if Mueller proves his case and it doesn’t matter?

"The US is experiencing a deep epistemic breach, a split not just in what we value or want, but in who we trust, how we come to know things, and what we believe we know — what we believe exists, is true, has happened and is happening."

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America is facing an epistemic crisis

What if Mueller proves his case and it doesn’t matter?

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“There is a yawning epistemic gap between us and Léon Scott, because he thought that the way one gets to the truth of sound is by looking at it,” said Jonathan Sterne, a professor at McGill University in Montreal and the author of “The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction.”

Shares of Sun soared 61 percent in European trading following a report in The Wall Street Journal that a deal could be in the works.

Merck to Buy Schering-Plough for $41.1 Billion

By DAVID JOLLY 2:35 PM ET

Merck, facing patent expirations, is hoping to shore up its research pipeline and expand its global reach.

While the credit crisis may have tamped down certain sectors of the M&A market, Halliburton wants to keep its mergers and acquisitions pipeline full.

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China Says It Is Ready to Meet Dalai Lama Envoys
By JIM YARDLEY
The breakthrough comes as officials have pivoted and moved to tamp down domestic anger over Tibet.

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━━ n. 使節; 特命全権公使.

pipeline Show phonetics
noun [C]
a very long large tube, often underground, through which liquid or gas can flow for long distances

n.

A conduit of pipe, especially one used for the conveyance of water, gas, or petroleum products.
A direct channel by which information is privately transmitted.
A system through which something is conducted, especially as a means of supply: “Farther down the pipeline are three other approaches to vaccine development” (Boston Globe).

tr.v., -lined, -lin·ing, -lines.

To convey by or as if by a system of pipes.
To lay a system of pipes through.

in the works
In preparation, under development. For example, The agent said there was a movie deal in the works, or He assured her that a follow-up campaign was in the works. [Second half of 1900s] Also see in the pipeline.

in the process of being planned or done:

Changes to the system are already in the works.

in the pipeline
being planned:
The theatre company has several new productions in the pipeline for next season.