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...company ExxonMobil's size routinely spends huge gobs of money. This year alone the company is expected to deploy some $16 billion on capital projects. Among other things, ExxonMobil is pushing heavily into the expanding market for liquid natural gas with a $7 billion gas-to-liquids foray in Qatar. But the company's projected capital spending is only $1 billion higher than last year, and even ceo Lee Raymond knows that some shareholders are frustrated that the company isn't being more aggressive about making investments. "When inevitably you ask me how we manage our cash, I will remind...
There's a particular buzz tonight. The cadets have just attended their last branch meetings, at which they glimpsed their immediate future in the specialty each has chosen. For most, the future will soon include a taste of war: 71% of the class branched into combat units and could deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan as little as a year from...
...mercenary army. Mercenary armies are often composed of former or current soldiers lured away by the high pay of the private sector. As New York Times reporter Elizabeth Rubin puts it, they are “willing to do what the United Nations cannot: take sides, take casualties, deploy overwhelming force and fire pre-emptively.” In Sudan, they would come in, protect the civilians from the Janjaweed and the Sudanese army, and remain until the international community asked them to leave. In the meanwhile they would establish a peace, which could actually be kept by peace-keepers...
...real-life battle-bots. Armed with an assault rifle and equipped with temperature and image sensors that detect and track targets, these machines can either shoot automatically or be controlled remotely. Two such robots are being used by South Korea and the U.S. in Iraq. Seoul plans to deploy such bots on its 250-km border with North Korea by 2011. Price: $79,000 each
...must try to develop and deploy advanced fossil-fuel technologies that can capture carbon dioxide and sequester it away from the atmosphere at affordable cost, thus allowing continued large-scale use of fossil-fuels in a greenhouse-gas-constrained world...