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...This songbird is what the terrorists aimed to silence. That's why they targeted the first-class compartments. They could have achieved a higher kill ratio if they had chosen the even more crowded second-class carriages, but their victims would have been poorer. So the casualties were from the great striving middle class, not rich enough to afford a car and driver, but enriched enough by Singh's reforms to commute first class: stockbrokers, small-time diamond dealers, software technicians...
...have a list of six or seven expansion opportunities. The one in Oman will be finished in early 2008. Oman was chosen because of its abundance of natural gas. We're considering expanding our Iceland plant based on geothermal electricity--very clean, renewable electricity at reasonable cost. That fits into Alcan's philosophy of developing energy resources to support our smelting and is similar to what we've done in Canada, where we own our electric requirements and generate it through hydropower...
Despite the turmoil in Lebanon, El-Zaatari said that he has "chosen to stay with my family"—he returned to his hometown of Sidon, from Beirut earlier this week. Since he is "far from any zones where major bombing has been taking place" and travel on major roads has been dangerous for the last few days, he said, staying put "is the safest option...
...difficulty is Iran has been literally non-responsive to the approaches,” MacKay said. “Whether it be...Jahanbegoo, who is currently in custody, [or] the previous engagements by the previous government on the Kazemi case, their government has simply chosen to ignore those advances...
...schools in Chicago that, for example, have cum laude societies that recognize the top 10% of a class but choose to allow the student body - not GPA - dictate who speaks at graduation. Even in Naperville, a valedictorian is still expected to address the class, but that honor is not chosen until the last weeks of a school year and is not forwarded on to schools in official transcripts...