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Prior to entering politics, Diaz did public relations in the private sector. Before that he put himself through school at George Mason University by working as a plumber - not of the Nixonian leak-fixing type, but of the uses-wrenches-and-fixes-pipes type. He stopped plumbing when he got into p.r., but he still fixes an occasional friend's pipes. ?In some ways they're more similar than you would believe," he says of his two occupations...
...each other's top economic partners, with two-way trade valued at $625.9 billion. Normally, Canada's exports significantly outpace imports, but in September the country's trade surplus with the U.S. dwindled to $6.2 billion, according to Statistics Canada. The main reason is that the automotive sector, which includes cars, trucks and parts, posted monthly deficits from April to September...
...says transport is the worst-performing sector under the Kyoto Protocol, and transport CO2 emissions in the E.U. grew by 32% between 1990 and 2005 while other sectors reduced their emissions by 9.5% on average over the same period. The group also believes some carmakers are making progress: Fiat has already met a target voluntarily adopted by the industry, to bring emissions down to 140g/km by 2008. Citroen and Europe's second largest carmaker, Renault, are on track to meet this target and Ford and Peugeot are not far off either...
...that health care gets delivered or what services are offered. I want the doctors to be able to do that. I want choice and competition. I'm certainly a conservative - I think government tends to be bureaucratic, it doesn't tend to be efficient. I think the private sector, by its nature, is going to be more flexible, more efficient, more creative. But there's an important role for government to play. A good example of this is on the federal level was back in the '90s, when welfare reform was done as a bipartisan initiative. From the conservative perspective...
...wherever they live, and democracy is God's gift to humanity, even though power mongers have always deprived people of democratic rights. Sustainable development that can benefit all the citizens of a nation, however, can be achieved only through concerted and collective effort by the state and the private sector under the rule of law and good governance. Economic growth and democracy should go hand in hand; one should not precede the other. Abebe Areru, Addis Ababa...