As the White House carefully attempts to ratchet up the pressure on Saddam Hussein to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspection teams in Iraq, Clinton used today's occasion to insist that the Iraqis comply with existing U.N. resolutions.
Nationalization -- or 'temporary receivership, ' if you like, if the N-word is a political liability -- is an occasion to undo the sort of consolidation that has created an even bigger systemic problem.