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...Kertes and the people around him profited immensely from his position. In his home town of Backa Palanka on the Croatian border, he made sure his friends got jobs and even doled out gifts to kindergarten children from vast warehouses built in town to house confiscated goods. The pork barrel paid off. In last September's elections, Backa Palanka was one of the only districts in the country to vote Milosevic...
...predicts, then, that the current economic slowdown would have the most visible effect on a store like Crate & Barrel, or on costly Square restaurants...
...Crate & Barrel, manager Josh Murphy says sales are level since last year...
...nonetheless have been a windfall for the Chinese leader. Pilloried by hawkish critics for having responded too limply to NATO's erroneous bombing of China's Belgrade embassy two years ago, this week Jiang set out to burnish his prestige by acting as if he had Washington over a barrel...
...Crimson is right that we are not “clutching to our last barrel of oil.” But, on March 6th, oil prices rose over 1 percent on the heels of reports from the American Petroleum Institute that American oil supplies are at their lowest level since January 1974. Opening a small portion of the ANWR to oil drilling will give the government an influx of revenue in the short term and a substantial amount of oil in the long term, both of which will help the U.S. decrease our dependence on foreign oil and formulate...