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...During the years of slavery, the church became a focus for community support, providing social welfare, education and other services....
...Out of these 28, six are part-time independent consultants and contractors hired to: ...perform various professional services, particularly for services connected to drilling operations, such as specialized...
...But the director with whom Leonard collaborated most fruitfully was Quentin Tarantino, in Jackie Brown, an adaptation of the 1992 Rum Punch....
...None has benefited more than KBR, once known as Kellogg Brown and Root. The controversial former subsidiary of Halliburton, which was once run by Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W....
...Strategy: A History, by Lawrence Freedman, OUP USA, RRP£25/$34.95 The word “strategy” is much used and abused by businessmen, politicians and military men....
...Greg Brown, co-chief executive officer of Motorola, Inc., will serve as chief executive officer of Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Networks businesses effective immediately....
...Many will cheer the news that engineering and oil services companies Halliburton and Kellogg Brown & Root have been fined for bribery. But this is no occasion for finger-pointing....
...The Women By TC Boyle Bloomsbury, £12.99 After fictionalising the lives of eccentric Americans including John Harvey Kellogg and Alfred Kinsey, Boyle directs his powers at another flawed manipulator: architect...
...Kellogg Brown Root, the engineering and construction company spun out of Halliburton, is building a sprawling new campus in the suburbs of Houston, while Foster Wheeler, an engineering company, has recently...
...Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc....
...At the root of the subprime problem was easy credit: lenders and their brokers were often rewarded for generating new mortgages on the basis of volume, without being directly exposed to the consequences...
...Brown & Root, which built the world’s first offshore oil platform, had been owned by Halliburton since 1962....
...And Kellogg, Brown Root, which was given $60 million in contracts, was rebuked by federal auditors for unsubstantiated billing from the Iraq reconstruction and criticized for bills like $100-per-bag laundry...
...Edie Weiner, of the New York company Weiner, Edrich, Brown, Inc, a futures consultancy founded in 1977, claims her clients first heard the words “internet” and “Taliban” from her....
...“Europe and the USA continue to treat Russia as a third-rate state”....
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