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...investment,” Chevron can keep its stake in the joint venture under federal law. In fact, the joint venture has continued to expand production in Burma since 2005. It added another wellhead platform last year, generating new natural gas revenues that enrich and entrench the country’s junta...
...feeling totally bipolar today!” “I alphabetize all the books on my shelf! I totally have OCD!” Such statements are not intended to trivialize, but for people who are depressed, manic-depressive, or obsessive-compulsive, these attempts at humor only entrench alienation and stigma...
...Taliban and Saddam Hussein created new spheres of Iranian influence, in fact a whole new regional dynamic that has neatly granted Iran a short-cut to great power status it could not have dreamed of otherwise. The system establishment views its nuclear program as a way to entrench those ambitions, and ensure its own survival...
...will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its potency wanes. The elections in Iraq and Afghanistan were only possible because of American intervention, but the Administration's suspicion of international law and multilateral institutions mean that the democratic changes could be difficult to entrench...
...world's worst rate. And ordinary Swazis are increasingly fed up with Mswati's gold-plated insensitivity, profligate spending and authoritarian ways, says Jan Sithole, secretary-general of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (S.F.T.U). While S.F.T.U members marched last month to protest a proposed new constitution that would entrench the powers of the monarchy, Mswati was busy tooling around in his new $500,000 Maybach 62, complete with dvd player, surround-sound speakers, refrigerator and bar. Although the King appears impervious to pressure from his people, he has bowed to their demands in the past. In 2002, Mswati decided...