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...mission assigned Medvedev was to make sure that previously underpaid billions got collected, says a close associate. And did Medvedev collect. The company's capitalization rose from $11.35 billion in 2002 to more than $300 billion today, mostly as a result of growing energy prices and by accumulating prized assets like Sibneft Oil Co. or parts of the dismembered Yukos...
...source, who adds that Bloomberg, a nominal Republican, is preparing to throw himself into the presidential race next spring, if he sees an opening. He's told people privately that he'd be willing to spend $500 million or more to finance an independent, third-party presidential campaign - to collect the signatures needed to get him on the ballot in all 50 states, to buy ads and to pay for staff...
...Popplewell, who wants more hard numbers on the effect of wild turtle harvesting, says as a bottom line he could support banning harvesting in public wetlands and waterways - in fact, he urges his co-op members not to collect there and he does not collect certain species of turtle. Four land turtles in Texas are defined by the state as threatened...
...Bayou Bob" Popplewell, the owner the Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch south of Dallas, is the founder U.S. Turtle and Aquatic Resource Technologies (USTART), a cooperative with some 400 members who collect and sell turtles primarily to the Asian market. "This is a vast renewable resource that we can harvest and manage wisely," Popplewell says...
Indeed, the power of student loan companies to collect debt is so invasively strong that Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren equated the industries’ methods to that of organized crime. This legislation came about as a result of congressional lobbying by private loan companies under the auspices of funding higher education, coincidentally at a time when government funding of education was hitting bottom. Federal legislation is currently being used by business to make money at the expense of institutions and students. And as long as there is money to be made, scandals will occur and students will be in debt...