Word: shells
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...Back in Washington, the relative speed of the White House's privacy-rules turnaround left some, like the staff at the Health Privacy Project, happily shell-shocked...
...MACEDONIA Collateral Damage Macedonian forces continued pounding ethnic Albanian rebels near the border with Kosovo as fighting spilled into the neighboring province, where a stray shell killed three civilians. nato ordered an urgent probe into the incident, at the ethnic Albanian hamlet of Krivenik, while 400 British troops were deployed in the region and pressure mounted for a halt to hostilities...
...UNITED STATES Shell Suit The families of two Nigerian environmental activists last week won the right to sue the oil giant Shell in New York. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the company must face a suit that alleges it took land without paying proper compensation, polluted the environment and paid local police to suppress opposition. The suit also alleges that Shell companies fabricated evidence against activists Ken Saro-Wiwa and John Kpuinen, who were hanged...
...Tulsa.” After the riot the black population declined by about one-third. Newspapers at the time are filled with reports of blacks walking along the railroad tracks headed out of town, never to return. The most poignant photograph of the riot shows the burned shell of the Dreamland Threatre, its marquee fallen. Such was the trajectory of Tulsa’s black community...
...owning the right foreign stocks. And these days that usually means focusing on small companies, which are best bought through a mutual fund. Why is smaller better? As the economy has gone global, large companies increasingly sell their stuff everywhere. Their fortunes (and stocks) move together. So Royal Dutch Shell doesn't provide much diversification if you already own Chevron...