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...banks - including ABN Amro, Italy's Banca Intesa and Citigroup - to fund BP's controversial Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, which will run through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to bring Caspian Sea oil to the West. The project, argued BankTrack, violates the Equator Principles in key areas, notably in regard to the protection of indigenous peoples. The ngo suggests the Turkish government may use the new pipeline as an excuse to crack down on ethnic Kurds living along its route. Last December, Banca Intesa withdrew from the project, but both Citigroup and ABN Amro reject BankTrack's criticisms and have...
Finally, we all face soaring health-insurance premiums, deductibles and co-pays as employers shift more of the burden onto employees. Yet the CPI looks at total expenditures without regard for who is footing the bill. Simply shifting the burden leaves no mark on official inflation...
...before deciding what to do, according to a 2001 study by sociologist Thomas Drabek. That process of checking in, known to experts as milling, is common in disasters. On 9/11 at least 70% of survivors spoke with other people before trying to leave, the NIST study shows. (In that regard, if you work or live with a lot of women, your chances of survival may increase, since women are quicker to evacuate than...
...actuality, it appears as if their real concern is simply getting onto the board, somehow, some way, without regard to a particular position or to their actual ability to do the best possible job. You could attribute this to their extreme passion about the organization as a whole and their eagerness to contribute to it in some capacity—but cynical student group members (and even less cynical ones like myself) are more likely to see the candidate as being extremely passionate about the appearance of power, and being eager to contribute to his or her résum?...
After reading a substantial portion of Tanner’s work, Distelberg said he has come to regard this unique writer with great respect. “I think Tanner presents a really intriguing way to examine the complexities of popular culture and sexuality in the mid-twentieth century United States,” he wrote...