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...strong arm of the conservatorship is felt in everything from Spears' curtailed spending to the weeding out of people who are considered bad influences. Even her downtime on the tour was carefully choreographed. When Spears' tour bus pulled into Pittsburgh, Pa., in March, the manager of the local Mad Mex restaurant didn't think twice about Spears' advance team's request: no flash photography, and her tables were not to be offered Red Bull or alcohol. Hard to argue with the results: a low-key meal devoid of drama. The most exciting thing the manager had to say was that...
...chosen by Kia in part because of its proximity to Hyundai's manufacturing facility, creating efficiencies for both companies as well as their suppliers, notes Kia spokesman Alex Fedorak. Suppliers are expected to create as many as 7,500 jobs in an area hard hit by the shutdown of local textile mills...
...that it takes today to power a war. The best one is that an F-16 burns more fuel in an hour than the average American family uses in an entire year. And each gallon of fuel costs many more times the cost of fuel at your local gas station, given the cost of transporting [it]. It may end up costing $100 or more per gallon. When you think about the fact that every day in Iraq something like 1.5 million gallons of fuel are delivered by truck convoy to U.S. forces, it's a staggering investment of human...
...that was easier said than done. Because of his reputation, local bosses still turned to him as an arbiter in their disputes. And according to police, he sided with the older and more established Usoyan in the turf war with Oniani. "In the eyes of these young and ambitious guys [like Oniani], Ivankov is a relic," Fedoseyev tells TIME. "He was away for many years, and here he goes getting involved in their business." (Read "The New Gangsterism...
...discuss their operations or planned criminal activities, an act punishable by up to 20 years in prison. This provision seems to be linked to the incident on Oniani's yacht; under the new statute, the men would have faced charges just for showing up for the meeting. According to local law-enforcement officials who were quoted in the Russia media, the purpose of the gathering was to discuss Oniani's turf war with Aslan Usoyan, leader of a rival clan in Moscow. Weeks later, the reputed godfather of the Russian mafia, 69-year-old Vladislav Ivankov, was shot...