Word: venezuela
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...ideas: Repeal the 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal gasoline tax; increase imports of refined petroleum from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela by removing environmental requirements for reformulated gasoline; reduce the EPA's categories of "boutique" fuels to three regional blends; waiving the "oxygenate mandate" in fuels; increasing the legal per-mile deduction for business or charitable gasoline use; and asking states temporarily to waive tolls on major roads during peak travel...
...unconstitutional to use lethal force against fleeing felons, American planes couldn't directly support shoot-downs. To many countries, the whole idea of shooting unarmed planes out of the sky was so distasteful that they barred U.S. planes from flying overhead on tracking missions altogether. U.S. officials say Venezuela's refusal to grant overflight rights gobbles up 25% of the flight time of some drug-hunting planes that have to fly around the nation as a result. Says a dea planner involved in the debate: "We're supposed to export the rule...
...Thirty-three of them did that, with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez obstreperously abstaining on the same gotta-check-with-my-congress grounds that everybody else felt free to ignore, and the summit ended not only with an "action plan" - a commitment of $20 billion from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to strengthen democratic foundations in the Americas and prepare for free trade among nations at widely disparate levels of development - but also with some language right out of Bush's "compassionate conservatism" file: a promise to create a hemisphere in which "no one is left behind...
...week. Brazil gained support in that position from Venezuelan president Chávez, a strident critic of the U.S., who flew down to Brasília last month to say that moving the date forward "would be for us a process of disintegration." Then Chávez asked for Venezuela to become an associate member of Mercosur...
...free-trade area would also offer a chance for smaller guys to go international. WaveRider Communications, based in Toronto, a maker of wireless Web equipment, has just opened a South Florida office to prospect for new business in such places as rural Venezuela, where the government's peculiar radio-frequency allocations drive up costs fourfold for some components. "If we could get low-cost, 128K wireless connections into their schools, offices and homes, they'd go crazy for it," says Scott Winn, the firm's South America manager...