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...state itself hurt the economy. Like Gazprom purchasing Sibneft, and another state monopoly purchasing other private company. The state generated some $30 billion in debt to do just that. Or take the case of RAO UES (the electricity monopoly) buying a sizable part of the Power Machines Plant. When the state unraveled Yukos, officials insisted it was a single such case rather than a trend. But it soon became obvious that Yukos was not a single case, that this concerns the entire economy. Just this month, officials of the state-owned Rosoboronexport (the weapons trade monopoly) has taken over...
...College in the world has its own stocking-stuffer to medium-sized imperfections. But, in the spirit of the Christmas (err, Holiday) season and the mental and physical renovations which this season often inspires, we’d like to see our very own Santa Summers and his physical plant elves deliver us few Christmas renovations as soon as possible after we return from our long winter’s naps. Our wishlist:Ten: Fix the carwash outside of Canaday. Astronomer or Aston-Martin? ESPP or BMW? Students making their daily treks to the Science Center or Memorial Hall after...
...nation in the hemisphere, is an unlikely specter disturbing Washington's dreams. But he could, nonetheless, present a similar nuisance value in Washington to that of his self-proclaimed ?model,? Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez. For one thing, Morales wants to fully legalize the growing of coca, the plant from which cocaine is derived, reversing decades of U.S. efforts to eradicate the crop in Bolivia. And he also hopes to nationalize the tens of trillions of cubic feet of recently discovered natural gas in Bolivia coveted by U.S. energy companies. A Morales victory may also quicken Latin America...
...Yudui, it started out as a relatively peaceful protest of 1,000 villagers against a plan by local officials to seize land to build a power plant. The 26-year-old air conditioner salesman had returned to his home town of Dongzhou to get married, but instead his family this week buried him after a secret funeral. Hundreds of riot police and soldiers, plus several tanks, were called in to disperse the protesters with tear gas-not that unusual in a country where the number of demonstrations over everything from environmental degradation to land seizures are increasing every year. Such...
...million in tax each year if Wilfong's proposal is passed. "His mission is misguided," says Kim Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé North America, which now pays only for the land where the springs are found. In response to a new tax, he says, Nestlé would cancel a planned new plant, costing the state 250 jobs...