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...Social unrest, militant unions, wrongheaded economic policy and rapacious local businessmen out to gain by hook or by crook contribute to what global investors call "political risk." It's something Indonesia has in spades. In June, in an apparent power struggle with its former Indonesian partner, a local unit of Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. was declared bankrupt by a domestic court despite the fact that the operation was solvent and profitable. The inexplicable decision, made because Manulife didn't pay a dividend to shareholders in 1999, was later overturned, but not before the case received international publicity. Partly...
...Germany, France and the U.K. have serious energy gluts, a relic of frenzied plant building during the heady Enron days. In Britain, where supply now exceeds peak demand by 25-30%, power prices have plunged 40% in the last 18 months and generators routinely spend $63 to produce a unit of energy that sells for $26. One potential buyer for TXU Europe is Germany's E.On, but its U.K. subsidiary has already started shutting down plants. Another is France's EdF, which loves devouring foreign targets, but last week the E.U. cried foul and ordered it to repay j900 million...
Citing a lack of space, the FAS Office of Physical Resources is exploring the possibility of restricting storage to students who live over 200 miles from Cambridge, charging students per unit of storage and even outsourcing storage so that some students will no longer be able to leave boxes in their Houses...
...quick,” Andersen said. “He was obviously their offensive threat all game. Our defense really played well as a unit today. We were able to shut down a solid team...
When he retired in 1997 upon being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, Malt was chief of gastroenterologist surgery, chief of the Nutritional Support Unit, and surgical chief of the Liver, Biliary and Pancreas Center...