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Whatever their strategic differences, both Suez and Veolia turn water into cash in the same basic way: securing long-term concessions from public authorities to run, maintain and, if necessary, build water and sewage systems, but not buy them. Both reject the notion that they are privatizing water. "We're delegated providers of a public service," insists Frérot. The idea is to stay "asset light" and profitable while running publicly owned facilities. "In France we've developed over many years a kind of partnership between public and private that works well in the water sector," says Chaussade...
...three agreed that Palmer doesn’t seem like the type to reject visits on the mound from his catchers or coaches...
...Russell Kirk defined it, is “negation of ideology: it is a state of mind, a type of character, a way of looking at the civil social order.” With antics that emphasize shock value over substance and mindless partisanship over thoughtful consideration, these CRs reject the fundamental tenets of civil conservative thought...
...lies in the center of the land occupied by the Masaai people—traditionally, nomadic cattle herders.The three rappers, along with Gsann and Nelly’s younger siblings and traditional Masaai singer Yamat (aka Merenge), use their Swahili hip hop to encourage Tanzanian children and adolescents to reject the nation’s dominant youth culture, in which violence is the norm. Instead, they urge listeners to “go back to their roots,” as Gsann says. Speaking at a screening of “Hali Halisi,” a 2000 documentary about...
...Most Palestinians were frustrated after both the U.S. and Israel refused to recognize the next Palestinian unity government, which will be dominated by Hamas. U.S. and Israel said they will reject the government and refuse to lift a crippling 11-month embargo on the Palestinians, unless Hamas accepts the existence of Israel, renounces violent resistance and recognizes all peace accords with the Jewish state. So far, Hamas has budged only slightly: it is observing a cease-fire with Israel and says the new government will "respect" previous Palestinian pacts with Israel...