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Suez and Veolia work on the principle that as private companies with broad expertise, they can channel that investment more efficiently than municipal waterworks can. And since it's not they but the owners of the pipes that pony up the money for investment (usually by issuing municipal bonds), these companies can be more financially agile than conventional utilities...
...State Department did not have the internal resources or Marines to protect all of its diplomats and overseas embassies, but Blackwater had access to a deep roster of former special-forces soldiers who, it argued, could do the job. It wasn't long before Prince was offering a broad range of services, from protection by bodyguards to aerial surveillance, for the State Department, the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies. In 2003, Blackwater landed its first truly high-profile contract: guarding Ambassador L. Paul Bremer in Iraq, at the cost of $21 million in 11 months. Since June 2004, Blackwater...
While crime is up around the nation and spread out across cities in a broad pattern, the majority of people convicted of crimes come from very few and very concentrated neighborhoods, according to the center, a Brooklyn-based research group that tracks the declared residency of convicts. More than 50% of adult male inmates from New York City come from just 14 districts in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn (with the most, about 12%, coming from East and Central Harlem) even though men in those 14 areas make up just 17% of the city's total population. Similar patterns...
...sells short) securities such as bonds, credit default swaps, and other derivative instruments, the trading of which directly impacts (for better or worse) the welfare of the companies in question. Second, these shares held by the Harvard Management Company are held only through Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and other broad market indices. Almost any ETF has a component stock that, when traded, has a direct impact on PetroChina’s or Sinopec’s stock price. If I were to buy a representative ETF of the world economy today, I would be holding a stake in PetroChina...
...philosophy. The principles that propelled the movement have either run their course, or run aground, or been abandoned by Reagan's legatees. Government is not only bigger and more expensive than it was when George W. Bush took office, but its reach is also longer, thanks to the broad new powers it has claimed as necessary to protect the homeland. It's true that Reagan didn't live up to everything he promised: he campaigned on smaller government, fiscal discipline and religious values, while his presidency brought us a larger government and a soaring deficit. But Bush's apostasies...