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From a geological perspective, former Commonwealth of Independent States members like Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan look like great places to buy up oil. There’s plenty of it, infrastructure is reasonable and Islamic separatist movements are not as formidably organized as they are in Saudi Arabia or Iraq. Then again, these places are political and environmental disaster zones in their own rights, replete with legacy pollution from the Soviet era and rapacious governments that are only too keen to make you pay for their mistakes. One typical experience this summer had me constructing a financial model to price...
...fiscal frugality. Other than two hard years of spending cuts to rein in Labor's excesses, Canberra has barely been squeezed. Compared with the hard, lean predators who dominated the Expenditure Review Committee in the Hawke-Keating years (1983-96), the incumbents are pussycats. On Sept. 10, the Commonwealth Treasury and Finance Department, under the charter of Budget honesty, released an up-to-date fiscal and economic outlook to assist the parties in making their election pitches and giving voters a true sense of current economic settings. Tax revenues are healthy, due to employment growth and company profits. The major...
...vast trove of fossils lets scientists see deep into the past - and unearth lessons for the future A certain type of person might regard Phil Creaser's life as a tiny bit humdrum. Fair-skinned and bespectacled, he works from a desk as a project coordinator in the Commonwealth public service, returning in the evenings to an empty house. In his free time, he keeps an eye on his elderly parents, loves a good trivia night, and has drinks every Friday evening with longstanding colleagues. Sporting interests? You bet: orienteering and rogaining, activities that allow him to indulge his penchant...
...sounds plausible. But until Latham outs himself over a breach of the motorists' code, I'm inclined to think it was someone else, another urban-fringe myth. Besides, why would a man who could be Australia's next Prime Minister be driving? Isn't he entitled to a Commonwealth car and driver? Where was his campaign bus, the Opportunity Express...
Contact information is listed with an e-mail address at vcu.edu—Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), a 25,000-student private university in Richmond with a focus on the life sciences. Pomey had already completed all of her requirements for an undergraduate degree at Harvard, but it is unclear which of VCU’s 100+ programs Pomey was or is enrolled...