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...national politics. Early last year, Argentina's government terminated a contract with a Suez-led consortium that was providing water services to Buenos Aires. The company also lost its contract to provide water to El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia, after massive protests beginning in 2003 over limited access for poor families. The leader of those protests, Abel Mamani, is the Minister of Water in the government of Evo Morales...
...natural resources. But this doesn't mean that everyone should pay the same price." The French giants of the industry can shrug and point out that it is not their task to set that price. That's up to markets and governments that want to regulate them to provide access to the poor, subsidize farmers or soak the rich. But Suez and Veolia can take quiet satisfaction from one crystal-clear certainty: over the next 150 years of their business, demand for water isn't going down the drain...
...many people intended to migrate, they might not have opened their markets in the first place. Britain had expected no more than 15,000 migrant laborers each year from the new E.U. countries; in Ireland 10,000 were predicted. While granting admission to all workers, both nations restricted migrants' access to welfare, thus pre-empting "welfare tourists" from leeching off the system...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum first began mounting exhibitions of contemporary art and acquiring important examples for their collections,” Lentz wrote last year in an e-mail.“There were no clear plans to develop the necessary facilities to fully exhibit or provide access to many of these works which require larger and more flexible spaces,” Lentz wrote.But with Allston in sight, Lentz says, “We are finally at the point at which those facilities are imminent, and we will be able to wholly dedicate ourselves to the exhibition and study...
...annex as targets of heightened surveillance. The U.S. has already barred it from doing business with U.S. banks and companies on grounds that the Iranian regime had used it to finance weapons of mass destruction, and now the U.S. hopes to use the Security Council resolution to hamper its access to global capital markets. But in a sign that not all the Security Council powers share the U.S. agenda, China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya told Reuters, "The main objective is our concern about Iranian nuclear and missile activities, so there is no need to expand beyond that area...