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...North Asia in Wal-Mart's global-procurement department. So, for factory owners across China, he is, simply put, the man to see. Every day on the fourth floor at company headquarters in Shenzhen, scores of Chinese factory salesmen come to vendor rooms with dreams of landing a contract. They--and the products they make--are a big part of the reason Wal-Mart's prices in its 3,702 U.S. stores are so low. "If you stop stuff from [abroad] coming into the U.S.," Hatfield says, "it would mean $180 blue jeans. Is that what Americans want...
...Winning bid of Peter Siegel, a memorabilia collector, for the contract that sent Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees...
...lawsuit has been a thorn in the University's side ever since the government terminated its contract with Harvard in 1997. The Harvard Institute for International Development, which had run the Russia program, folded in the wake of the scandal, and Shleifer's reputation was suddenly undermined...
Sinopec is currently constructing a $65.5 million pipeline in Sudan that could substantially boost the regime’s oil export revenues. ABB’s contracts in Sudan total to more than $36 million, and the company won a contract last year to improve the country’s power grid. Tatneft allegedly entered an oil-for-weapons swap with the Sudanese government in 2002, although initial reports of the deal have not been confirmed. Tatneft officials did not return repeated requests for comment from the Crimson...
...first indication that divestment campaigns are having an impact on the Sudanese regime’s business partners, ABB Ltd.—which holds a contract to improve Sudan’s electric grid—announced in April that it is “considering whether doing business [there] is the right thing...