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...last winter publicly debunking the Administration's assumptions on oil, pointing out that 12 years of sanctions had left the industry in a terrible state. "There has been a great deal of wishful thinking about Iraqi oil," said the Council on Foreign Relations/Rice University report, noting that the oil sector was "being held together by 'Band-Aids'" and estimating that the Iraqi industry needed $30 billion to $40 billion to rehabilitate active wells and develop new fields. "Put simply," the report continued, "we do not anticipate a bonanza." According to Department of Energy figures, Iraq is pumping only about...
During a lifelong career in dispute resolution Dunlop juggled responsibilities in government, academia and the private sector...
Lorell says she doesn’t feel like she is moving into the business sector...
...Commission for flouting the E.U.'s ceiling on budget deficits. In the Paris media, all this bad news has been accompanied by a wave of punditry debating whether the country is sliding inexorably into insignificance. Is Raffarin the man to turn the economy around, bring unruly unions and public sector workers into line, and create what he calls "a new France in a new Europe?" The Prime Minister, by turns jocular and combative as he juggled a rugby ball during the Time interview, betrays no doubts. The son of a politician himself, the marketing executive-turned-provincial legislator says...
...sheer stupidity. Why not just repeal it altogether? We've done so for 95% of French companies - those with fewer than 20 employees. The big companies have generally come to terms with the law and aren't asking for a change. The big problem is in the public sector, where changing it has provoked opposition that we have to take into account. The debate on the merit of the 35-hour week is still open, but we've made changes that are indispensable for France's smaller companies, which are the backbone of the French economy. But it's precisely...