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...would still be either exorbitant or unfair. "An 8% royalty for prospective mines ... would be the highest in the world. For existing mines, business plans were undertaken without figuring in paying a 4% royalty - that would be unacceptable to us," says National Mining Association spokesman Luke Popovich. "The World Bank has already said for countries seeking to have a sustainable mining industry that a gross royalty is confiscatory. If we're going to have a royalty fine, but let's put it where it's fair...
...written decades later—the play, and Steinemann’s directing, is much more focused on the characters, and the show is stronger for it. Myrna reveals a bit of a psychotically vicious streak that makes her far more entertaining, while Myra robs a bank and attempts to flee to Canada. Both plotlines allow Hecht to shine as she teeters on the edge of mania, while Kroop, as Myrna’s son Kenny, has the largely thankless task of being quietly nonplussed by the former and impressed by the latter...
...tons to the acre, or do you get five tons to the acre?" Competitive risk comes via foreign wine sales, which are gaining market share. They accounted for 29.4% of the U.S. wine sales in 2006, up from 27% in 2005, according to Silicon Valley Bank, although much of these gains were in cheaper wines...
...France; the Chinese associate cucumbers with regularity, so in China it's cucumber-flavored. But Danone also insists its health claims are based on hard science. The company has founded 16 "Danone Institutes" to study nutrition. It filed 30 health-related patents last year and maintains a "bio bank" with 3,000 strains of bacteria for research...
...deals, common in Europe for decades, got jump-started in the U.S. in 2005 when Chicago enriched its treasury by $1.8 billion by selling a 99-year lease of the Chicago Skyway to Spanish roads operator Cintra and Australian bank Macquarie. At about the same time, Texas bagged $1.2 billion to let a Cintra-led consortium build the first part of the Trans-Texas Corridor and collect tolls on it for 50 years. In 2006 Indiana signed a 75-year lease for the 157-mile (253 km) Indiana Toll Road in exchange for $3.8 billion, funding the state's transportation...