Word: jimming
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...Monetary Fund official. After scouring corporations throughout the Arab world and bank accounts in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg, the auditors identified $800 million, which has been made a part of the Palestinian Authority's official budget. "It's the most successful financial reform in the Arab world," says Jim Prince, president of the Los Angeles--based Democracy Council and head of the audit team...
...fields in Kazakhstan, and they haven't secured any other significant drilling rights in Central Asia or the Middle East. The fields that Chinese companies have bought into are already mature, and many experts feel they have overpaid. "China has been singularly unsuccessful in its overseas ventures," says Jim Brock, a Beijing-based energy consultant. "They're trying to learn in a decade what it's taken big foreign companies a century to master...
...landmark deal: with a $2 billion bid, the U.S. firm ConocoPhillips had just won an auction for the Russian government's 7.6% stake in the firm. The two companies promptly announced a strategic alliance to develop oil reserves in the Russian Arctic and potentially work together in Iraq. For Jim Mulva, Conoco's president and chief executive, the deal amounted to a coup, giving Conoco access to 8 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves at relatively modest cost. Lukoil was delighted too because it is counting on the Americans to help it extract and market the oil more efficiently...
...built on that blueprint in a succession of beguiling and acclaimed CDs on the Blue Note label. Written in the Stars (2000) samples Porter, Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen, among others. Stardust (2003), on which the trio is augmented by such guests as Tony Bennett and guitarist Jim Hall, is all Hoagy Carmichael. The best so far, this year's Somewhere, focuses on the theater songs of Leonard Bernstein...
...mood are found in people who have traits of spirituality, a light came on. For 35 years I tried to regulate my wild mood swings with drugs, alcohol and relentless exercise. Not until I recently re-found my faith did my mood swings stop--completely. Now I understand why. JIM DUFFY Fort Atkinson...