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...finance chairman. Instead, weaving a web of potential major donors became just another enterprise of Giuliani Partners. With one hand, the firm signed contracts to advise such security-conscious businesses as Entergy (a leading U.S. nuclear power plant operator) and Broadwater Energy (which hopes to build a liquefied-natural-gas terminal in New York's Long Island Sound). With the other hand, the company began reaching out to such key Bush supporters as oilman T. Boone Pickens, investor Thomas Hicks and the Bass family...
...officer was dispatched to a report of a gas powered motor scooter that was chained to a vent on the side of a building. Officers arrived and ticketed the vehicle...
...François Mitterrand in 1982, a disastrous move that was reversed in 1987, one year before the company got a big piece of Belgium's electricity industry through a merger with the Société Générale de Belgique. Lyonnaise, for its part, had been shorn of its gas and electricity assets by France's nationalization efforts in 1946. The two merged completely in 1997 and took the common name Suez...
...George Perkovich of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "They don't want to alienate the Iranians politically, and they don't want to lose business in nuclear exports, arms exports, and so forth," says Perkovich. "Perhaps as important, Russia has a desire to create an OPEC for natural gas, which is only possible with close Iranian-Russian cooperation. They don't want to jeopardize that, either...
...many material ways, things are a lot worse than they used to be. Many Iraqis now get less state-supplied electricity and water than they did under Saddam. Those who can afford it use private gas-powered generators, but the price of gas has grown manifold. Inflation is rampant: prices rose 70% last year. And quite apart from the sectarian violence, crime rates have soared...