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...m.b.d., but even OPEC says Venezuela's output is 2.4 m.b.d. PDVSA's exploration and production vice president, Luis Vierma, warned last July of an "operational emergency" because of a lack of drilling rigs. In recent years, there has been a troubling string of accidents; and oil corruption, the blight that Chávez vowed to eradicate, became an issue this year when Vierma was investigated--but not charged--for handing lucrative contracts to rig operators who had no experience...
...Yours! or Till Divorce Do Us Part†served up a fall Farcefest full of philandering, French-isms, foppishness, and fervor. This year’s on-stage fracas was as conflicted as its title, comically portraying the blurred line between marital bliss and marital blight. Unfortunately, in some parts of the performance, the line between “great†and “grating†was just as blurred...
...Covenant with Manchester Taxpayers.†Mandatory referendums on town budgets requiring over 3 percent tax increases; “performance-based accountingâ€â€”whereby town departments report progress with statistics rather than subjective reports; and a new town ordinance to combat blight were among the Republicans’ promises...
...shame. Of course, those naughty students guilty of rubbing too closely up against one of the infected (or of just living in their dorm) were recommended to do the same. Much like God punished the Egyptians with locusts, the promiscuous students among us shall be met with the blight of scabies. Soon enough, every Harvardian with an irregular patch of skin lined up at UHS, waiting to be examined by the University’s most reputable physicians. Unfortunately, a diagnosis of scabies is traumatic enough without the social stigma. The inevitable questions from roommates (“You hooked...
...whether by signing them to shoe deals or encouraging them to take the jump from high school straight to the NBA or both.But while Vaccaro has plenty of admirers, he has no shortage of critics either, especially in the NCAA. He has been portrayed as a basketball mobster, a blight on the integrity of the game who has brought about the age where NBA hype starts in middle school and teenagers are drawn away from the amateur game by the allure of multimillion shoe deals and signing bonuses.To Vaccaro, the claims of his critics are representative of the hypocrisy...