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Where is the money now? The U.S. has frozen more than $6 billion of Iraqi assets worldwide, meaning billions remain unaccounted for. Some congressional officials are worried that the money is helping fuel the insurgency in Iraq. --By Perry Bacon...
...Yukos is unable to pay its tax bills because its accounts have been frozen, making it hard to pay suppliers and staff as well. In early November, authorities issued an arrest warrant for the company's chief lawyer, Dmitry Gololobov. Last week, the firm's chief financial officer, Bruce Misamore, fled the country along with other top management, citing fear for their personal security. And the Yugansk auction is scheduled the day before a shareholder vote called to decide whether to file for bankruptcy protection; a principal reason Yukos hasn't already done so is that a majority...
...trial for alleged fraud and tax evasion, charges he says were trumped up. Since then Yukos has been hit with a $17 billion bill for back taxes, and the government is threatening to auction off the company's most valuable asset to pay them. Most Yukos accounts have been frozen, making it hard to pay suppliers and staff. But the company has called a shareholder vote for December to decide whether to file for bankruptcy protection; a principal reason it hasn't already done so is that a majority of board members believe it would be impossible to find...
...production lines are monitored from a computer room equipped with the defunct Data General's 1982 system. "I'd say we're at least 15 years behind in technology," explains Gordon Snowdon, 55, a Briton in charge of production at the oil field's biggest station. "Actually, we're frozen in the 1970s...
Writing is risky. Unless we state it explicitly, our words are assumed to represent the final and most refined stage of our thinking. And if we are so impulsive as to have something printed, the stage of thinking that is verbally represented on paper becomes the one frozen in time. Publication is codification, and codification is king. And Google will matter-of-factly display whatever we put forth, with no remorse, regret or qualifications. If we exude humility the first time around, however, we forego the characteristic confidence and pizzazz of a gripping piece...