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...your international assets, including Swiss bank accounts and Park Avenue apartments, affected you? The assets frozen would not be enough to cover [Motorola's] legal fees. Besides, 99% of our assets are in Turkey. Ninety-nine percent? Okay, 98% - correct me if I'm wrong! What about the travel ban? It would be a problem if I could not travel in Turkey. That's what matters. Why did you decide to enter politics in 2002? I wanted to give something back to Turkey. The country is being run by people who are not up to the task...
...years slipped by, Congress reversed course. Prodded by the Reagan Administration, lawmakers repealed the ban in 1987 and opened the door to construction of natural gas--guzzling power plants. Three years later, they amended the environmental rules to discourage the burning of coal--America's most plentiful fuel--to produce electricity. Predictably, the generation of electricity with natural gas, which had fallen 17% from 1979 to 1987, has shot up 151% since then, reaching a record 686 billion kW-h last year. Nearly a fifth of all U.S. electricity is now generated with natural...
...tried to build an LNG supply line once before but, in typical fashion, abandoned it. During the last natural-gas shortage in the 1970s, when lawmakers voted to ban its burning to generate electricity, they also encouraged the establishment of the LNG industry with taxpayer-guaranteed loans and grants. Special tankers, the most expensive ships in the world at the time, were built along with four terminals and re-gasification facilities at Cove Point, Md., near Baltimore, as well as in Georgia, Louisiana and Massachusetts. The first LNG shipments arrived in 1978. In April 1980, Morris Udall, the Democratic Representative...
...types of craftsman and shopkeepers who once lived above the stores they operated. It plans to extirpate fast-food restaurants and interstate ramps, which have invaded the neighborhood. All along Torresdale Avenue, the main drag, this neighborhood plans to install Victorian lighting and revive Henry Disston’s ban on alcohol...
...very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend...to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman." BILL FRIST, Senate majority leader, endorsing a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriages...