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Fish and Rigs. In addition, the government has imposed stiff fees for concession rights and royalty fees of 8% to 16% on every barrel of oil produced. It has also proposed an income tax of up to 91% on all revenues earned from oil pumped in Norwegian fields. Moreover, it...
When forced into a corner, however, a surprising number of gun owners admit that controls upon handguns and in some cases prohibition could be beneficial. But this concession only provides a springboard from which they leap into their favorite argument. "We just don't have judges with enough guts to...
1) A limit of about 2,400 on the total number of missile launchers that each nation may deploy. That includes land-based and submarine-fired missiles; in addition, each long-range bomber would count as a single launcher, even though each plane can release more than one bomb. In...
Though he held his own in the economic argument, Rockefeller offered a concession. He pledged that if he were confirmed, he would put all his assets in a blind trust, except for art and real estate, including four farms in Venezuela. In an exchange with New York's Charles...
From the beginning, Hepburn refused to allow her young double to do any of the hazardous sequences. "I haven't waited all these years to do a cowboy picture with Wayne to give up a single moment of it now," she said. The only concession she made to her...