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After leaving office in November, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder wasted no time sprucing up his résumé. He took a job as consultant with Swiss publishers Ringier in November; he even attended a rural language school in Wales to brush up on his English. Russian, though, might have been a better choice. Only weeks after brokering, as Chancellor, a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a gas pipeline linking the two countries, Schröder earlier this month stepped into the role of project chairman. Set to start piping gas into Europe...
...shirts, Ennis’s mailbox) rather than unwieldy monologues to dramatize the characters’ grief. McMurtry and Ossana made the smart decision to give incredible freedom to Lee and his actors. More is said on Anne Hathaway’s face in her last scene than the sum of all the film’s naturalistic and appropriately sparse dialogue. Its lazy passage of time illuminates the characters’ cyclical misery as well. The plot jumps from year to year without the use of intertitles, as if the pain of Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis?...
...employees and their families and even surrounding communities. Neilsen says executives at firms that depend on raw materials coming from those mines need to be worried as well. "Even if you remove any moral consideration and look at it in pure business terms," he says, "spending a tiny sum to protect your supply chain will be good for your investors." Roughly 150 firms have joined GBC in the past 2 1/2 years to better coordinate the business response...
...order to address the concerns of the community, Harvard entered into negotiations regarding a “payment in lieu of taxes” (PILOT), an annual sum given to the town to compensate for the lost tax revenue, similar to the arrangement that Harvard has with Cambridge and Boston...
...insisted they're not open to further discussion on reducing subsidies, not now or in 2008, when Britain hopes to secure a mid-term review of spending priorities. Indeed, the biggest accomplishment Blair can claim is creating a ... BUDGETARY BROUHAHA On paper, the E.U. budget amounts to a meager sum, roughly 1% of the gross national income of all member states - substantially less than the annual €180 billion-plus they spend, in aggregate, on defense, for instance. Yet the debate over allocating this money creates rivalries that sometimes seem to need all those armies and tanks just to keep...