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CONFIDENCE. Director James Foley, who explored the world of third-rate real estate scammers in Glengarry Glen Ross, explores a more ostentatious tier of criminality in this picture. To up the fim’stension level, he’s stocked his cast with actors blessed with a talent for quiet rage—notably, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia and Ed Burns. Burns is the con man who runs afoul of Hoffman’s unsettlingly short crime boss. Rachel Weisz also stars as “The Bait,” according...
...supply of oil are not going to be sustainable. Oil demand is going to start outrunning supply sometime between 2015 and 2025, according a range of estimates from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation, meaning that prices are likely to skyrocket as third world development puts demand pressure on production capacity. The likelihood of finding more oil is extremely low at this point. In the 70s fuel reserves were underestimated due because they did not take into account the technological progress that would make untapped, although previously known, oil reserves financially viable...
Bombardier, while proud of its status as the world's third largest aircraftmaker (after Boeing and Airbus), is feeling more and more like Goliath to Embraer's David. Under new CEO Paul Tellier, a proven cost cutter, Bombardier Inc., the parent company of Bombardier Aerospace, is paring down its operations to become nimbler and more focused on its core businesses, making trains and planes. "Rigor and consolidation are the order of the day," Tellier said recently, as he announced plans to raise $1 billion by selling Bombardier's recreational-products division, which makes popular Sea-Doo watercraft...
...revenues of $2.5 billion were less than a third of Bombardier Aerospace's, the smaller firm has captured more than a third of the regional-jet market after entering only seven years ago with its 50-seat ERJ135 and has become the fourth largest aircraftmaker. The rivalry involves two of the best-run companies in the hemisphere, yet each side protests that the other doesn't play fair because it relies on taxpayer subsidies. Embraer says it needs government help to counter Bombardier's easier access to First World financing and technology; Bombardier says it has to have...
...enough to make you want to flee the city?and you still can, provided you pass the airport's new mandatory health checks and you're not booked on the nearly one-third of flights to or from Hong Kong that have been canceled. But take heart, Hong Kongers, you have the steely will to persevere in a city the World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed unsafe for nonessential visits. Even the Stones, grizzled human petri dishes that they are, were frightened away by the very environment you call home. At the moment, despite the Health Department's explanation...