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...Dick Cheney, who has been in charge of energy policy, remain oilmen at heart, skeptical about a major Manhattan Project-style national campaign to redirect the energy market, mindful of the time and expense necessary to build a new infrastructure and the pipelines, refineries and fueling points necessary to exploit alcohol-based fuels...
...when France's mutual group Caisse d'Epargne announced last week it would begin doing so, it was heralded as revolutionary. Caisse d'Epargne's promise to pay 0.5% to 1% interest on its roughly 4.5 million current accounts make it the first major bank in France to exploit last month's regulation changes quashing 70-year-old laws banning certain charges and payments. So far banks Société Générale, BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole all say they will not follow suit until customers express interest of their...
...more vexed than Mexican President Vicente Fox, who is under pressure from the Bush Administration to crack down on the flow of drugs and illegal migrants across the Mexican border, amid fears that terrorists might exploit the lawlessness to sneak into the U.S. Mexico was infuriated by a recent U.S. alert about security dangers on the Mexican border and by a State Department report last month claiming that 90% of the cocaine hitting U.S. streets comes via Mexico, much higher than prior estimates of less than 75%. Mexico disputes the report, especially since it has made strides in breaking...
...with the simplicity that Rodgers and Hammerstein’s moralism stereotypically conjures. The HRDC production, directed by Matt J. Weinstock ’05, though cute and well-intentioned and marked by several standout performances, does little to overcome the book’s limitations and fails to exploit its challenges...
Greenspan said he was still able to exploit the flaw as of March 28. “I haven’t looked at it lately,” he said...