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...mental states. People's irrational fears helped trigger the crisis last year, but we didn't understand it well enough to take it seriously." For his part, Ramos-Horta is urging his countrymen to look ahead, speaking glowingly of the country's economic potential. Revenues from offshore oil and gas reserves increased nearly ninefold to $351 million from the 2003-04 fiscal year to the 2005-06 fiscal year. The reserves, which are located between East Timor and Australia, are to be developed by international and Australian companies, who will hand over half the royalties to Dili. "We could have...
...substantive commitment to national priorities, as well as a candid appraisal of what we’d have to give up in order to make endeavors like the Apollo program successful. Under FDR’s leadership in World War II, we agreed to ration our consumption of gas, shoes, and coffee, and our national wealth was used to protect our national security. Likewise, Bill Clinton, who asked in his first inaugural for us to choose sacrifice not “for its own sake, but for our own sake,” saw the necessity of restraint in federal...
...shots that started to fall, Harvard ran away with the win. “We misfired a little bit on the offensive end in the first half,” Crimson coach Erik Farrar said, “but then it was just a question of stepping on the gas.” WAGNER 6, HARVARD 4 In its second game of the day, Harvard started off very slowly. Wagner took advantage of the unprepared Crimson squad by tallying three goals in just the first two minutes of action. Harvard eventually got going and held the Seahawks to three goals...
...little more than loincloths. After they fill their quota, the miners have to turn and crawl hundreds of yards, pulling a basketful of coal twice their body weight. The only illumination comes from candles in small lamps attached to the miners' heads--but Chinese mines are particularly prone to gas explosions, says Munro, making naked flames extremely dangerous...
...honest?" a new signs on rickshaws reads, before listing a series of reasons why drivers are forced to behave badly. Among them: city officials recently voted themselves a 100% pay rise while auto rickshaw drivers have gone years without a fare increase; the cost of natural gas, which the city forced auto rickshaws to use a few years back, has gone up more than 70% in the past year; and the price of an auto rickshaw ride in other Indian cities is much higher...