CNOOC-ering BP
CNOOC-ering BP
What to do with BP, which is beginning to teeter on the edge of bankruptcy? Who on earth could bail it out? The conventional wisdom has a consortium of American oil majors taking over the discredited British Petroleum. But how about a more imaginative solution, all the way from China?
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BP removes CEO Tony Hayward from oil spill oversight
BP removes CEO Tony Hayward from oil spill oversight
NEW ORLEANS – BP removed Chief Executive Tony Hayward from day-to-day oversight of the Gulf oil spill crisis a…
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BP’s Hayward off spill duty
BP’s Hayward off spill duty
NEW ORLEANS – BP’s chairman said Friday that CEO Tony Hayward is on his way out as the company’s point man on the Gulf oil spill crisis, a day after Hayward enraged members of Congress by offering few answers about how the environmental disaster happened.
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Enraged to engaged: Tea party backers explain why
Enraged to engaged: Tea party backers explain why
Bill Warner is hardly a naive man. He ran his own engineering firm for three decades, and sold the assets just before the economy tanked. He built his dream home on a majestic hill abutting a national park, back when the…
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BP spill could help oil sands, Apple’s iPad finds religion
BP spill could help oil sands, Apple’s iPad finds religion
Actually, religion found the iPad as priest develops app for Mass
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The Political Diagnosis: Psychiatry in the Service of the Law
The Political Diagnosis: Psychiatry in the Service of the Law
Dr Knoll is director of forensic psychiatry, associate professor of psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, and director of the Forensic Fellowship Program, Central New York Psychiatric Center, Marcy.
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Country singer follows his dreams
Country singer follows his dreams
If Michael Ruhl believes in signs, the country singer’s new CD and the career he’s launching began in a tornado. It was three years ago, heading home from several months as a part-time aerial rescue firefighter at Yellowknife.[...]
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Les Leopold: Wall Street Wants Its Name Changed to Casino Canyon?
Les Leopold: Wall Street Wants Its Name Changed to Casino Canyon?
Under the rules governing high finance, bankers can win every time. They’re essentially serving as “the house” within a vast global casino. That yields a lot more cash than moving the nation’s savings into productive investments.
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10 indicted in Elk Grove case of alleged mortgage fraud
10 indicted in Elk Grove case of alleged mortgage fraud
Jun. 17–Three years after a 30-home buying spree during the worst excesses of the housing boom, five Elk Grove residents and five accomplices face federal charges of writing phony loan applications and defrauding lenders of $5.5 million.
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Queensland shoppers pay the most
Queensland shoppers pay the most
QUEENSLANDERS are paying more than residents of other states for products that grocery giant Coles is promoting in its Prices are Down campaign.
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