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...pipe froze in the nine degree morning weather,” said Director of Computer Services Franklin M. Steen. “[It] came in from the frozen outside of the building. There are safeguards against such freezing, which apparently did not work...
...even as both sides settled into the legislative agenda, the White House was moving quickly on other fronts. Within the first few months the Administration helped strike down workplace-safety regulations, tried to make it harder for people to declare bankruptcy, froze stricter regulations governing road building in wilderness areas and arsenic pollution, and rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty over the objections of Bush's own EPA chief, Christie Whitman. Democrats were appalled by what they saw as a hard right turn. The Bushies suggest that Democrats just got mad at being outmaneuvered. "Democrats think he's not nearly...
...hemisphere-wide volcanoes or that the moon is picking up dust as it moves through its orbit, staining its face and leaving the other side clean. "We have all kinds of questions," says Cassini physicist Larry Soderblum. "Were there volcanoes? Were there oceans of some mystical hydrocarbon that froze...
...Yukos. But in late June, Yukos officials and diplomats say, Putin went silent and the government attitude inexplicably changed. A court decision gave Yukos a mere five days to pay $3.4 billion in back taxes, fines and penalties for 2000. Two days later, bailiffs "arrested" the firm's accounts, froze its assets, and refused payment in Sibneft shares. A similar bill for 2001 quickly followed; two more...
...economy. "We can expect bankruptcy before the end of 2004," Yuri Beilin, vice chairman of Yukos' board, announced last week, after a Moscow court upheld a Tax Ministry demand that Yukos must pay $3.5 billion in alleged back taxes for 2000. Another court upheld a previous ruling that froze Yukos' Swiss bank accounts worth $5 billion...