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Utilities such as electricity are said to be public services. What a farce! Utilities that are owned by for-profit corporations have primary legal responsibility to their investors, not the public. When the supplier of electric power has a monopoly in a given area, there is no competition and no incentive to do better, and government regulation is too easily manipulated. Public services should be owned by the public. RICHARD C. BRAUN Pleasant Hill, Tenn...
...Saudi Arabia is the world's No. 1 oil exporter and the leading supplier of crude oil to the U.S. It has onequarter of the world's proven oil reserves...
...doesn't hurt the bottom line either that the Costes own 80% of the operation that makes the 1,800 little rolls and 1,500 pastries the Costes restaurants serve daily, 33% of the company that supplies the smoked salmon and other prepared foods, and 50% of the condiment supplier. All the Costes establishments are obliged to buy from these suppliers, no matter which member of the extended family is the majority shareholder. That's a nice bump to the bottom line when the €10 slice of chocolate cake at Georges costs a little more than...
...option. The U.S. military has concluded that hundreds of thousands of Koreans on both sides of the border and thousands of Americans might die in a direct military confrontation, and the only effective non-military forms of pressure - such as economic strangulation - require China's active cooperation, as the supplier of the bulk of North Korea's energy and much of its food. But as much as China fears that a nuclear-armed North Korea might prompt Beijing's key regional competitor, Japan, to go nuclear, it may currently fear the chaos brought on by the collapse of Kim Jong...
...prospects for success at the Beijing talks will hinge largely on the work of the hosts. China, as the supplier of 70 percent of North Korea's energy and one third of its food, is the only outside power with significant leverage over Pyongyang. But Beijing is lowering expectations. China's President Hu Jintao said earlier this week that the meeting in Beijing would be "just a beginning." And that may be precisely what concerns those who fear North Korea is simply playing for time while building its bomb...