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...suggested Hydro had done more business with the consultancy than was previously thought. Packed into a room with reporters in Molde, a short drive and ferry trip from Nyhamna, StatoilHydro's new boss Lund scoffed at any talk that the revelations might disrupt the smooth integration of the two firms. "I'm the strongest guarantor for that," he said, shortly before heading to the Ormen Lange celebrations, "and that is my responsibility." As the head of Norway's new, next-generation energy firm, his responsibilities have only begun...
...also has a temperament. He is a technocrat of appellate law and a groupie of Supreme Court culture. He clerked for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and became one of the most prominent members of the Supreme Court bar as head of appellate practice at the law firm Hogan & Hartson. Roberts argued 39 cases before the court--which meant studying the personalities of Justices to whom he would direct his arguments and identifying the questions that might pique their intellectual fancy...
Republicans warned that the cumbersome restrictions would cause delays that would help enemies planning to attack the U.S. Democratic Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York stood firm, saying, "We need intelligence professionals gathering intelligence, and we need the courts protecting our liberty...
...application process, however, is highly technical and creating a very hot niche. One company turning rust into gold is Matcor, a corrosion-engineering firm in Doylestown, Pa. Specializing in cathodic protection, Matcor posted revenues of about $10 million in 2006 and annual growth from 25% to 30% over the past five years. U.S. government regulations with strict compliance measures require all newly laid oil and natural gas pipelines to have cathodic protection, says William Schutt, Matcor's president. But even more significant, he says, is the country's aging infrastructure--many pipelines were installed with more primitive cathodic protection...
...China and India roar ahead of the world in economic growth, multinational firms eager to partake of their labor and consumer markets are rushing in--and sending their best executives to lead the charge. The U.S. expat population has leaped over the past five years, according to experts, in large part because of growing delegations to China and India. And yet the two emerging giants remain famously tough for Western executives to navigate. In a 2006 survey by GMAC Global Relocation Services, they are cited among the three most difficult locations for expats (the third is Russia). Corporations are learning...