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With so much at stake, the synfuelers have pumped money into a campaign to preserve their tax break. At the center of the synfuel lobby in Washington is a consortium called the Council for Energy Independence. It's a name worthy of the most successful Washington lobbies, in which private interests camouflage their mission under the banner of a worthy-sounding cause. The council is directed by one of Washington's premier tax lobbyists, Kenneth J. Kies, managing director of the Clark Consulting Federal Policy Group. A former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the congressional panel...
...methods we're using to improve things are different," says Ghosn during an interview at Renault's Boulogne-Billancourt headquarters on the southwestern edge of Paris. "We're confident this plan will be successful, but if not, we'll assume the consequences. Everyone knows exactly what's at stake." That's a sentiment that is widely shared among European business leaders, as their corporations face ferocious competition not just from established economies like the U.S. and Japan, but from emerging powers such as China and India. In the auto industry in particular - still the bellwether for a globally successful manufacturing...
...from the Melut Basin in southern Sudan to a Red Sea port—a project that could boost Sudan’s petroleum exports substantially, according to a December 2004 Washington Post report.At the end of last year, Harvard owned 134,050 Sinopec shares—a stake that was worth about $8.2 million at the close of trading yesterday.One of the leaders of the renewed Sudan divestment campaign, Jennifer T. Morse ’07, wrote in an e-mail yesterday that Bok’s decades-old views may not determine how he, as interim president, might...
...concentration choice and to establish optional secondary fields,” Berkman Professor of Psychology and Council member Elizabeth S. Spelke wrote in an e-mail.Ulrich said the review is progressing at a “grassroots level now” and that individual professors need to develop a stake in the review before legislation reaches the full Faculty.“Nothing is going to happen until individual departments sit down and ask, ‘how is this going to affect us?’” Ulrich added.No vote on the EPC recommendations is expected...
...river to catch the tail end of men’s basketball’s always-exciting clash with the Tigers. (I’m so shomer!) I arrived at Lavietes Pavilion just in time for Princeton sharpshooter Kyle Koncz to connect from downtown with 10:42 left to stake the Tigers to a narrow 40-39 lead in the see-saw battle. From that moment on, however, Harvard went on a tear. With Michael Beal knifing through the lane for two acrobatic three-point plays, Matt Stehle grabbing every rebound in sight, and the defense staying firm...