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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Some of Venezuela's supply reduction has resulted less from strategy than from political upheaval; a 2002-2003 strike by workers and managers at Venezuela's state-run oil monopoly who opposed Ch?vez didn't help, and and analysts believe that the fiery leader's recent actions to exert more state control over drilling projects has reduced investment. (Venezuela insists it is producing up to 3.5 million barrels a day, though many analysts put it at little over 2.5 million.) But the bottom line is that since 2000, the last time Ch?vez hosted an OPEC gathering, the cartel's daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hugo Chavez Has Primed the Gas Pump | 5/31/2006 | See Source »

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 has branded Harvard “soulless,” arguing that the institution fails to exert any “formative force” on its students and that the faculty are “exhausted” by their work on curricular review...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ex-Dean Excoriates Harvard Higher-Ups | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard as the source of our society’s intellectual leadership. Now, inside these walls, I do not think that I was wrong: The world does look to us. But right now, we are not leading. Only by rejecting Opal Mehta and all that it represents can we exert our power and assume our intellectual responsibility...

Author: By James P. Maguire | Title: Rebuilding the Ivory Tower | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...their pets that they often overlook bad behavior. "People in really stressful jobs don't want to set boundaries with their dogs. So the dogs are out of control and at times dangerous," he says. By rewarding the animal's good behavior and teaching the humans how to exert authority in a way that their pets can understand, he makes training less stressful for both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's a Dog's Best Friend | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...Strategic Level. But there are no present signs that the Communists are moving toward acceptance of a legal solution. Meanwhile, the non-Communist world must protect itself, and in such a way as to exert maximum persuasion on the Communists to take the legal solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Road Beyond Elugelab | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

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