Word: pleasing
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The big oil producers have good reason to be nervous. Many are still haunted by a disastrous error made at an Opec meeting in Jakarta in 1999, when the cartel - which produces more than a third of the world's oil - opted to raise its production levels. Within weeks Asian...
Their pleas bought Lincoln more time, but the company was ultimately seized by the FHLBB two years later. Its bailout cost taxpayers over $3 billion; thousands of Lincoln investors lost their life savings.
Surely, this could be called a reactionary’s utopian fantasy (I prefer to think of it as an anarchist’s utopian fantasy). It may also be objected that what I am actually recommending is the country’s dissolution. I recall Einstein’s...
They say ministers have ignored their pleas, and that price inflation is eating into family spending. With Prime Minister Yves Leterme due to unveil his 2009 budget to parliament on October 14, the unions want a signal that some form of relief is on the cards.
In response, the prosecutor on the case alerted the judge to several outstanding warrants for Driscoll and detailed his lengthy criminal record. Driscoll has defaulted on appearing before court 23 times, has 32 guilty pleas, and has been previously convicted on six occasions, four times of breaking-and-entering and...