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Veolia in particular is focusing on global expansion. "Ten years ago we did 85% of our business in France. Now it's 45%," says Antoine Frérot, Veolia's CEO. For his company, moving out means moving up: in another 10 years, Frérot figures that Veolia's annual growth in the mature market of France will be 3%, as opposed to 15% or 20% in North America and China...
...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. "It's an equilibrium between public responsibility and private know...
...case of Noorzai is just more evidence of the plague of groupthink that has struck U.S. decision makers, from the mishandling of pre-9/11 intelligence to the mistakes made in Iraq. Officials made contact with a valuable source, but then they just let him rot in jail with the crucial information he has. Such missteps have cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of soldiers' lives. Winston Samson Virginia Beach, Virginia...
...case of Noorzai is just more evidence of the plague of groupthink that has struck U.S. decision makers, from the mishandling of pre-9/11 intelligence to the mistakes made in Iraq. Officials made contact with a valuable source, but then they just let him rot in jail with the crucial information he has. Such missteps have cost billions of taxpayers' dollars and thousands of soldiers' lives. Winston Samson Virginia Beach, Virginia...
...adding some admirable guitar work, which provide the last glimpses of his former glory on this album. From here, things go downhill pretty rapidly. There is a eulogy for a friend’s dead bunny rabbit (“Crystal Blue R.I.P.”), and a tooth-rot inducing, schmaltzy ballad, which was formerly the theme song for a children’s television show of the same name (“White Horses”). While not wholly disagreeable, the rest of the album is lyrically bland and somewhat sappy. Much of what makes this album...