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...engineers by declaring that the country's oil reserves were about 215 billion barrels - about double the estimates that have held for Iraq for years. That would make Iraq a giant oil power, second only to Saudi Arabia. If the estimates prove true, Iraq's potential would outstrip its other neighbor Iran, which sits atop about 136 billion barrels of oil. The IHS engineers examined 438 undrilled fields and used new technology to recalculate old reservoirs...
...inequality." Arguing that rural areas, old people and young families have lost out, he recently began calling for massive wage increases for all. Savisaar's reformist opponents, including those in the same coalition government, denounce his call as irresponsible demagoguery; they worry about Estonian competitiveness being harmed if wages outstrip productivity. The polarization grew particularly acute in the run-up to the recent presidential election, a bruising contest between the incumbent Arnold Rüütel, a grandfatherly former communist official who is 78 and fluent in Russian, and the challenger, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a slick American-educated foreign-policy...
...Take biologist Paul Ehrlich’s popular Malthusian broadside, “The Population Bomb.” Farsighted Ehrlich predicted that a “population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” causing world-wide famine and the death of “hundreds of millions of people” annually from starvation. Oops—in the subsequent 35 years, increased agricultural productivity exceeded population growth and the total amount of cultivated land barely increased...
...overall tuition and fees at private four-year schools in the United States have risen at an average annual rate of 5.8 from 2001 to 2006. Yet while Harvard College’s rate of increase has been smaller than at many other schools, it still continues to outstrip inflation—even in the higher education sector. The Higher Education Price Index—a gauge of inflation calculated by Commonfund, an investment firm in Wilton, Conn. that serves schools and other nonprofit organizations—has increased by an average annual rate of 3.4 percent over the past...
...while Harvard College’s rate of increase has been smaller than at many other schools, it still continues to outstrip inflation—even in the higher education sector...