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...background. "So perhaps they will understand the language of the gun." The nascent insurgency has made Nigeria's oil fields among the most dangerous in the world - and helped push global oil prices past $72 bbl. Nigeria was meant to be part of the solution to the insatiable demands for more oil from the U.S. and fast-growing China and India. When the country returned to civilian rule under President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, it was pumping around 1.8 million bbl. a day. Daily capacity had expanded to 2.5 million bbl. before the recent attacks; Nigeria is now the sixth...
Koné, 36, has built Airness around his own early street-level observation that kids determine what's hip, not the companies hawking togs to them. "By observing what people were buying or looking for, I could react faster to current trends and demand--and anticipate what would work next," he says...
...revenues. But as with U.S. cigarette sellers, declining usage at home means foreign lands are the key to growth for the world's third largest tobacco manufacturer. Experience in overseas operations will help Hiroshi Kimura, Japan Tobacco's new CEO. In the face of increasing competition and shrinking demand, the company saw domestic sales drop 2.5% in the last fiscal year. Foreign sales jumped more than 11% last year, to $7.6 billion. Morgan Stanley analyst Taizo Demura forecasts a 15% jump in Japan Tobacco's overseas earnings this year. That's because Kimura, 52, is looking to Russia, Eastern Europe...
...year after taking over the helm of Ec 10, N. Gregory Mankiw is responding to student demand by supplying change to the decades-old introductory economics course. Most significantly, students will now be able to divide Social Analysis 10 with credit—meaning that signing up for the course doesn’t lock a student in for both semesters of the year-long course. And undergraduates with a social analysis Core requirement to fulfill will only need to take the first semester to do so, without having to file a petition first. “There have always...
...around the two remaining committees with two representatives from each district. With social programming outside the jurisdiction of the UC, downsizing will lead to increased efficiency and sensitivity to campus needs in UC, as well as a greater sense of purpose for individual members.We further call on students to demand movement to a direct election system in which UC candidates run for specific committees. Under current election procedures, representatives have priority in choosing where to serve based on ranking in their House or Yard elections, often leaving those with fewer votes reduced to serving on a committee to which they...