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...people they suspect of soliciting for sex and hold them for up to 48 hours. If charged and found guilty, prostitutes face two months in prison and a j3,750 fine. Nicolas Sarkozy insists that his real targets are the pimps and gangs who organize prostitution, not those they exploit: "If prostitution is slavery, let's not allow pimps to display their merchandise in the street," he told the Assemblée last week. Foreign prostitutes will be deported. Those without papers who inform on their pimps will be given temporary residency permits. It's the massive influx of foreign...
...widely viewed as a straight shooter. Many assume she's simply lost her taste for the game-not least because so little has gone right since she took over. The Philippines, she said, is "now closer to the category of backward countries, wherein powerful, selfish interests are able to exploit poverty and ignorance." She also complained of a political atmosphere filled with "poison"-presumably a reference to fierce criticism of her husband and his alleged dealings with Congressman Mark Jimenez, who was extradited to the U.S. last month on fraud charges...
...time Watkins arrived, Enron was fast shedding its image as a staid natural-gas-pipeline company. Trading chief Jeffrey Skilling and his financial whiz, Andrew Fastow, wanted to build a nimble, "asset-light" firm that could exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, weather derivatives, broadband capacity and anything else that could be turned into a commodity. The strategy spawned explosive growth. By 2000, Enron was the seventh largest company in America. The '90s were fat times for Enron, and the corporate culture oozed in excess. The company rented ski condos in Beaver Creek, Colo., and stocked each with a personal...
...There are going to be holes in any zone, so we’re going to try to move the ball and exploit that,” senior guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman said...
...wonder the Taliban and al-Qaeda hate the Chiclet teams. "Every one of us in Chiclet-5 has a price on his head," the Colonel says. "There are still al-Qaeda and Taliban out there. We see them shadowing us, looking for any weakness they might be able to exploit. We know they're going to come after us: it's not a matter of if, but when." He smiles. "But I'll tell you something, when they come they'd better be loaded for bear. Because we're good. Real good...