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...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice named former Legrand SA chairman and chief Gilles Schnepp as a new operating adviser....
...“It basically reverses every oil policy that Hugo Chávez ever implemented,” said Francisco Monaldi, a fellow in Latin American energy policy at Rice University in Houston....
...Recent development has hemmed in lakes and paved over the rice fields and wetlands that used to absorb excess water around the city....
...The lush fields where Ms Hla Ohn May and other farmers used to plant rice and beans are mere industrial landscaping now, manicured behind fences by company workers in orange jumpsuits....
...But in Changxing, a county on the banks of Tai Lake in Zhejiang province, a much more concentrated city has sprouted from the fields....
...The once-rich fields in the provinces outside Bangkok have been turned into vast murky lakes by the worst floods in half a century....
...More than 400 are dead, hundreds of thousands have been displaced and one-quarter of the crop in the world’s biggest rice-exporting nation has been wiped out....
...The talk in Europe was of grain and butter mountains, and lakes of milk and wine. China, India, Brazil and other emerging countries were yet to rise; Russia was still part of the Soviet Union....
...Copper reached a high of $8,880 a tonne, while CBOT rice futures hit $23.375 per hundredweight....
...Between the two is Gates’s own luxury mansion, overlooking Lake Washington....
...Rosen, Chairman Emeritus, Compaq Computer Corp. Daniel Rosensweig, COO, Yahoo! Jane Rosenthal, President, Tribeca Productions Dave Roux, Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners Robert E....
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