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The Bryce book (Public Affairs, New York, 2004) was about Dubya’s "Cronies" and its subtitle gives the gambit away: "Oil, The Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America’s Superstate."


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Angelito Sarmiento, deputy chief of the Cabinet office for Central Luzon headed by Executive Secretary Alberto Romulo, said in a press briefing here that Mrs. Arroyo has ordered the drafting of a House bill that would amend the law limiting foreign investments in public utilities to only 40 percent.


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Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chairman Felicito Payumo and Thomas Krun, chief operating officer of Kellog Brown and Root (KBR),  the local affiliate of HII, are set to sign a memorandum of agreement  (MOA) in Washington today during the state visit of President Arroyo. The President will witness the signing.


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In a letter to the US Embassy in Manila, the 1,690 OFWs sought the assistance of American authorities to acquire their retirement, overtime or holiday and differential pay under the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 


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Tests warned of cement troubles before BP blowout

October 29, 2010 - 8:06am

Tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP's oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway, investigators...

Cronies

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | August 2, 2004 - 12:00am

There’s a torrid book about Cronies by Robert Bryce which I just finished reading. Very interesting. Nope. It wasn’t about Erap’s cronies, nor about the late Ferdinand E. Marcos’s cronies. Nor...

Opinion

Joint venture, legislation eyed for ship repair facility in Subic

By Ding Cervantes | May 27, 2002 - 12:00am

SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga — President Arroyo is supporting a proposal to allow an American firm to largely or even fully own and operate a ship repair and maintenance facility at the Subic Freeport either...

Nation

Halliburton to build world-class ship repair facility in Subic

By Marianne V. Go | November 22, 2001 - 12:00am

Halliburton International Inc., the world’s largest service contractor, will build a multi-million dollar, world-class ship repair facility in the former US naval facility in Subic. Subic Bay Metropolitan...

Business

Workers press $7.8-M claim from US company

By Aurea Calica | October 9, 2000 - 12:00am

More than a thousand overseas Filipino workers are appealing to the United States government to intervene in their 16-year-old claim for $7.8 million in unpaid wages and other benefits from their US-based employer. In...

Nation