Word: kazakhstan
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...addition to his sister, Mack is survived by his ex-wife Sally Stahl; three sons—Daniel, of Boulder, Colo., Kenneth, of Almaty, Kazakhstan and Tony, of Cambridge; and two grandchildren...
Democrats should stand up for a more realistic approach to promoting democracy. They should demand that the administration make our support for regimes such as those in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Pakistan conditional on democratic reform in those countries. Perhaps the White House is hesitant to offend our allies in the fight against terrorism. If so, the administration does not understand how crucial democratic reform is to curbing militant extremism...
From a geological perspective, former Commonwealth of Independent States members like Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan look like great places to buy up oil. There’s plenty of it, infrastructure is reasonable and Islamic separatist movements are not as formidably organized as they are in Saudi Arabia or Iraq. Then again, these places are political and environmental disaster zones in their own rights, replete with legacy pollution from the Soviet era and rapacious governments that are only too keen to make you pay for their mistakes. One typical experience this summer had me constructing a financial model to price...
...nation. But when the company makes a move to sell major assets, the government decides it wants more control over its black gold. The company balks - and finds itself accused of tax evasion. Though it sounds like Russia's Yukos saga, this scenario is playing itself out in neighboring Kazakhstan between the government of authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev and British energy giant BG Group. On July 19, citing the results of a March audit, Kazakhstan's financial police accused the company's local subsidiary, BG Karachaganak, of failing to pay $5.4 million in customs duties on liquid natural...
...says. He tried traveling, and he puttered around his Longmeadow, Mass., home, but nothing gave him the thrill of international work. Having done some Gillette work in Eastern Europe, he jumped when a former co-worker suggested that he sign up with I.E.S.C., which assigned him to projects in Kazakhstan and Russia. He's now back to fast-paced work, converting biochemical-warfare facilities into peacetime factories and, in tandem with U.S. agencies, finding jobs for former government scientists. "It's incredibly rewarding," he says, being "so closely linked to something that is trying to fix mankind...