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AUSTRALIA: That's wrong, because this area is unique. The 1958 U.N. Convention on the Continental Shelf is the guiding principle. The sea bed in the Timor Sea has a huge steep cleft called the Timor Trough - 550 nautical miles long, 40 n. mi. wide and as deep as 3,000 m. The two countries sit on different shelves...
...need ten or more generous $4 Million guys, just like me, every year, just to pay the salary of ONE of these pigs, and I don’t know how many of them are lined up at the trough because you/Harvard are keeping it all a deep dark secret,” wrote Bennett, who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1964 and the School of Public Health...
...according to one watchdog group, including millions of dollars in the farm bill that went to those infamous mohair subsidies, and politicians of both parties are quietly delighted that the public no longer seems to care. But economists are concerned that with each new trip to the trough, lawmakers are accelerating the arrival of a fiscal disaster. "The U.S. budget is out of control," the Wall Street investment firm Goldman Sachs & Co. warned in a newsletter to clients late last month...
This American cacophony is not unprecedented--see Father Charles Coughlin in the '30s, or the partisan free-for-all of the early Republic. Nor is it all bad. Politics has always been a mud fight--better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest. And even the anger industry sometimes recognizes such a thing as going too far. MSNBC fired aptly named right-wing host Michael Savage this year after he told a gay caller, "You should only get AIDS...
Surprisingly, United's decision to return to the federal trough is drawing flak within the industry. In a rare display of intra-airline bickering, Leo Mullin, the head of Delta Airlines and the industry's key lobbyist for government assistance since 9/11, said, "The ATSB should be limited to overseeing the outstanding loans. Then it should go out of business." Added Mullin, whose carrier did not apply to the ATSB for money: "Let the marketplace work." That's easy for him to say, since Delta will probably survive. Some other airlines flying today will...