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...scenes, of course. Savisaar is currently negotiating for the government to buy back the national railway, which it privatized in 2001 - a decision it now regrets. Plans to sell the state-owned energy company collapsed in 2002 when the acquiring U.S. firm couldn't obtain financing in the wake of Enron's bankruptcy. Estonia went through a brief recession and the government had to slash spending when Russia's financial crisis hit in 1998. The birthrate collapsed in the 1990s and has only now begun to turn upward again, helped by incentives including 15 months' maternity leave on full...
...report, commissioned in the wake of the Madrid and London bus and train bombings of 2004 and 2005, also cites lack of communication between emergency response divisions, including the police and fire departments, as a chief reason for the transportation system’s vulnerability...
Fast forward two years. The economist, instead of being lambasted in the wake of a criminal investigation, received the glowing support of his colleagues. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, an award given to the most promising American economist under the age of 40. Previous winners included Paul R. Krugman, Harvard Professor Martin S. Feldstein ’61, Milton Friedman, and not surprisingly, Summers...
...That's an imponderable. Simply because Mrs. Clinton is in the mix, there will be another round today, or maybe two, before the day is over. There's nothing like a good dynastic rumble to wake up both parties' sleepy activist core. But all it has done is remind us that both sides are to blame...
...wealth, however, often brings corruption in its wake, and for three years the country has been embroiled in "Kazakhgate." In March 2003, in the most far-reaching charges ever brought under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.S. prosecutors charged James Giffen, an American businessman who was once a key Nazarbayev adviser, with funneling $78 million in bribes from oil companies to Kazakhstan's top leaders. Kazakhstan has flatly denied that its officials have done anything wrong, and Giffen has denied the charges against him. His case is scheduled to go to trial in January...