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...system as a possible export. Since Toll Collect refuses to pay full damages for the €6.5 billion shortfall in revenues, it is also a further fiasco for the government, which rashly earmarked part of that sum for much-needed investments in infrastructure in the 2004 budget. Although the consortium has since declared it has successfully completed...
...INDICATORS Supply and Demand Halliburton has been ordered to reimburse the Pentagon $27.4 million after allegedly overcharging for meals it supplied to the U.S. military. And American justice officials demanded documents relating to allegations that a Halliburton-led consortium paid $180 million in illegal commissions to build a plant in Nigeria in the '90s - the subject of an ongoing probe in France...
...government. Campus officials could join Human Rights Watch in calling for an independent inquiry into the Miami events. Kennedy School of Government academics could do a comparative study of the Cancun and Miami models of policing protests. Most importantly, now that Harvard has formally contracted with the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent watchdog over its licensing practices, faculty and students can identify and reform the flagrant sweatshop abuses that abound in “free trade zones” that will be expanded by the Free Trade Zone of the Americas proposed in Miami...
...Kellogg Brown & Root last week lost its 10-month-old deal to supply Iraq with fuel: the Pentagon's Defense Energy Support Center will re-open contract bids early this year. And so far 2004 doesn't seem terribly bright, either. A Paris magistrate is probing allegations that a consortium headed by Kellogg Brown & Root and French oil engineer Technip paid out $180 million in illegal commissions to build a natural-gas plant in Nigeria during the late 1990s, when Halliburton was headed by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney. Technip officials have already been questioned over the deal, with authorities...
Yacobian is one of 20 working mothers in the Boston area currently living with Jetsons-style kitchens as part of a pilot program sponsored by the Internet Home Alliance, a consortium of companies trying to figure out how to make the kitchen of tomorrow a must-have today. The cell phone--controlled cooler/oven comboa Whirlpool Polara souped up by IBMis just one component. Each family also has an Icebox FlipScreen (a TV with a DVD-CD player and Internet access that hangs from a kitchen cabinet) and a Whirlpool refrigerator equipped with a wireless Web tablet. Everything is networked...