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...things going on in the U.S. (like your utterly corrupt administration in the White House), of all the scandals (Halliburton, lack of WMD, the Plame affair, to name a few), this is what the media is concerned with?! Hello? Is there anyone out there who cares that the U.S. is falling apart? Amal Chaaban Edmonton, Alberta, Canada...
...Skanska of Sweden - unveiled a set of principles aimed at eliminating bribery, contending that businesses themselves are hurt by rampant payoffs because they distort competition. "There is significant corruption in the industry," Alan Boeckmann, chief executive of U.S. construction giant Fluor, tells TIME. Some big players, including Bechtel and Halliburton - which last week fired two employees for allegedly taking $6 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor - declined to participate, but with an accord now in place there is growing pressure to sign up. Will the pledge be enforced? We'll see. "We all know this is just a first...
...head of German equity capital markets at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. "There's an unbelievable increase in activity," he says. "But there are just a few big deals handled by fewer banks. The dotcoms aren't coming back yet." - By William Boston Unseasonal Greetings For U.S. oil-services firm Halliburton, 2003 carried a sting in its tail. Amid recent allegations that it overcharged U.S. tax payers by $61 million for its services, Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown & Root last week lost its 10-month-old deal to supply Iraq with fuel: the Pentagon's Defense Energy Support Center will re-open...
...becomes increasingly clear that Saddam Hussein posed no threat to American national security, the tragedy of 345 and counting young lives lost becomes greater and greater. And it is that enormous tragedy that we should be focusing on, because the opinion of Jacques Chirac, the profits of Halliburton and the temporary hardship imposed on the Iraqi people—who no doubt will soon enjoy better lives than they ever could have under a brutal dictator—pale in comparison. I hope that future demonstrations keep this concern in mind. After all, if you were President Bush, what would...
...becomes increasingly clear that Saddam Hussein posed no threat to American national security, the tragedy of 345 and counting young lives lost becomes greater and greater. And it is that enormous tragedy that we should be focusing on, because the opinion of Jacques Chirac, the profits of Halliburton and the temporary hardship imposed on the Iraqi people—who no doubt will soon enjoy better lives than they ever could have under a brutal dictator—pale in comparison. I hope that future demonstrations keep this concern in mind. After all, if you were President Bush, what would...