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...billion Estimated spending on pork-barrel projects for fiscal 2003, a record high...
...spread my knees when I sit down, and stand with my shoulders squared and legs wide. I barrel down the sidewalk with my shoulders hunched and I won’t deviate off course for anyone. I walk along Mass. Ave from the Au Bon Pain to Bartley’s, deliberately aiming myself toward groups of people. To my surprise, everyone gets...
...Every plan for Iraqi prosperity is based on the assumption that it will be mostly financed by revenue from oil. Even though the country is sitting on sizable reserves, that will be still be tough to pull off. Iraq currently produces two million barrels of oil a day and with a sizable investment may get up to three million bpd in a few years. At a projected an average price of $25 a barrel (which may be very optimistic) this would be only enough to provide each Iraqi citizen $1,125 per year. Contrast this to Kuwait, where oil sales...
...Melendez gave the tanks permission to fire. The lead tank, "Barbarian 2," acknowledged - that tank is headed by Sergeant Al Wallace, 28, who back in Kuwait decorated his 120 mm barrel with the moniker "Baghdad beware". At 10:29 am just as a figure appeared on the roof of the distant bungalow, Barbarian 2's barrel exploded like a bomb. A cloud of dust enveloped the tank as 60 tons of Abrams recoiled across the road. A second passed then the impact. The bungalow disappeared in dust. "Rock Six, we no longer have a sniper problem," said Mitchell. He would...
Michael Otto, 59, has aggressively pushed to countries beyond Germany, including the U.S., where he has a majority stake in Crate & Barrel. (The family separately owns the Spiegel catalog group, which includes Spiegel, Eddie Bauer and Newport News, an online women's-clothing retailer.) Otto has also invested heavily in technology, including e-commerce, to improve efficiency, cut costs and reach out to customers. Last year the company turned a profit for the first time on its online sales, which reached $1.9 billion. Otto boasts that it's the second largest Internet retailer after Amazon.com The advantages of running...