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...that could prevent Europeans waking up "to find European companies belong to non-European capital, bought when share prices were at their lowest point". Sarkozy also wants governments in countries that use the euro to have greater powers to manage it against other currencies, and to significantly extend the term lengths of the rotating E.U. presidency - which France just happens to hold at the moment. Both suggestions met opposition from other European countries...
...drastically altered driving patterns, perhaps permanently. "We are seeing changes in habits," says Julian Lee, senior energy analyst with the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. "The sales of big gas-guzzling vehicles have collapsed. If we see that kind of change it becomes a much longer term issue with long-term demand destruction." In the short term, there's simple math. The average driver goes about 12,000 miles a year at 20 miles per gallon, says Ken Medlock, an Energy Fellow at the Baker Institute at Rice University in Houston, Texas. If gasoline drops...
...film is structured as a jumbled, perplexing series of episodes that fail to come together in a cohesive, satisfying picture. Bouncing between flashbacks of Junior’s youth and his first term as president, “W.” has no method to its madness. Rather than illuminating the modern-day scenes, the flashbacks only slow the movie by repeatedly depicting Bush as a misguided youth and, later, a born-again cowboy-politician...
...That gut check could have long-term benefits. "Going to ninth grade unprepared for the work is a pathway for failure and dropping out for many young people," says Suzanne Morse, president of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, a research group on community-building, based in Jacksonville, Fla. "This test can help school systems, communities, and students and parents intervene before it is too late...
...circumvent the rules. Despite calls led by Prime Minister Brown for an investigation into the matter, the Electoral Commission indicated that it saw no need for such inquiries and Tony Wright, a Labour MP who chaired the parliamentary committee that investigated a funding scandal during Blair's final term, also suggested the Tories were in the clear. "We are not talking about corruption here. We are not talking about law-breaking," said Wright. This was about "a massive misjudgment." Or, as Lord Tebbit, former chairman of the Conservative party and one of Margaret Thatcher's most loyal Cabinet members tartly...