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...similar plants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and other states, is worth more than $1 billion a year in federal income-tax credits, a corporate giveaway protected by a bipartisan group of supporters in Congress. Those who have profited from the system range from fast-buck artists to giant corporations. They include one of the nation's largest hotel operators, a commodities trader barred from the industry for fraudulent practices, a chain of electronics stores, an electric utility that unplugged the lights during the great blackout of 2003, technology firms run by friends of influential lawmakers, limited partnerships of wealthy...
...billion. Analysts hastily revised predictions that Russia would attract more money than it would lose this year. Why is Russia's business élite sending its money back abroad? Because it's spooked by the government's aggressive investigation - widely viewed as politically motivated - of the oil giant Yukos, which has so far resulted in the arrest of two senior figures...
...Gulf to oppose the U.S. and support Islamic revolution. To achieve this, he progressively escalated his strikes against the U.S.—the East African embassies, the U.S.S. Cole and finally the World Trade Center and the Pentagon—in an effort to wake the proverbial sleeping giant. It is logical to speculate that bin Laden was counting on a violent U.S. military response to convert the Arab masses to his cause and facilitate political upheaval in the Gulf States...
Light rain fell on the crew of 15 construction workers Saturday who maneuvered the 200-ton house with a hydraulic system and giant sets of wheels that resembled aircraft landing gear...
...makes his living wearing down defenses’ fronts. With the Huskies dominating time of possession in the first half, you thought for sure it was going to work. That it would be only be a matter of time before the Balestracci-sized Gale would be running through giant holes and exhausted defenders...