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...more, according to oil analysts. So, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has plenty of incentive to push his OPEC colleagues to vote for production cuts: If falling prices force his government to cut its heavy gasoline subsidies, he won't help his chances of reelection in a tough presidential race next June. "There is a lot of popular unrest when they cut subsidies or put on gas quotas," says Robert Johnston, Director of Energy for the Eurasia Group in Washington. For similar reasons, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez wants OPEC to cut production by about 1 million barrels a day, warning that...
...About 80% of output is exported, mainly to Europe, which until recently meant booming business. But as the specter of recession comes to haunt Germany, France and the rest of the Continent, automotive sales have been badly hit. In Turkey, that has resulted in a drop in production since June, after five years of continuous growth. "Foreign orders are drying up and there's nothing we can do about that," says Ercan Tezer, head of Turkey's Automotive Manufacturers Association, who nonetheless is lobbying the government to do more to promote domestic sales; cars are heavily taxed in Turkey...
...widespread losses across the world in investment values,” Faust said, while her colleagues at the head table, many of whom appeared amused at other points in the meeting, sat grim-faced. Harvard’s endowment grew 8.6 percent during the year ending in June 2008, outpacing industry benchmarks, but financial data from the past few months—which have seen some of the most precipitous economic declines in decades—have not been made available. Faust said that the primary concerns about the situation were that the financial aid needs of students whose families...
When University President Drew G. Faust addressed the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commissioning ceremony in June, she distilled the decades-old tension between Harvard and the military in a quiet but pointed criticism...
...some new professors, the environment at Harvard was the main draw. Jonathan L. Zittrain, a professor of cyberlaw who received tenure from Harvard last June, called HLS “one of the most vibrant academic environments in the world,” adding that “it’s a place that is eager to forge connections with other universities, other disciplines, and with the world beyond academia...