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...dreaming of the eponymous train pulling into his front yard and transporting him to the North Pole. There he finds a not particularly jolly old St. Nick presiding over a kind of super Wal-Mart, in which, you can be sure, the elves toil without protection of a union contract. The mass adoration that greets this Santa's appearance before his helpers may, indeed, queasily remind you of modern dictators rallying the faithful...
CNOOC, for example, signed a deal two years ago to extract 1 million bbl. of oil a day in Indonesia, and a year ago, it signed a major contract to produce gas in Australia. In February, President Hu Jintao traveled to Gabon hoping to secure deals in Africa, and in June he led a delegation from China's natural-gas industry to Uzbekistan. Chinese oil executives have even begun courting Ecuador and Colombia. "Latin Americans feel frustrated that the U.S. has virtually ignored the region, so turning to China is prudent and will pay financial dividends down the line," says...
...sector, particularly foreign companies. Under the terms of the Conoco deal, for example, the American company can raise its stake in Lukoil--but only to a ceiling of 20%. That's less than the 25% it needs to be able to block strategic company decisions. BP, by contrast, whose contract was signed eight months before Khodorkovsky's arrest, has a 50% share in its Russian joint venture. (The company's Russian minority shareholders are howling because BP uses a complicated transfer-pricing method that allows the parent company, instead of subsidiaries, to book the lion's share of profits.) "That...
House Masters and tutors agree across the board that amorous relationships between students and tutors are strictly forbidden. Kirkland House Master Tom C. Conley notes that the policy is one of the basic premises in the contract for every tutor hired...
...weeks of competition on ESPN’s flagship reality show, last night’s “Dream Job” season finale pitted Thompson, 28, against 22-year-old David Holmes of Uniontown, Ohio. The prize for the winner is a one-year on-air contract with ESPN...