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S.D. Malkins plan to build a resort hotel complex on two Oside city-owned blocks facing the muni pier and blue Pacific has received approval of its Environmental Impact Report as well as a coppla other major permits. The $l87-mil. development is expected to be completed by 2010. Its original concept was approved in 2005. Pricey coffee goes for a buck a cup In order to compete with some of the fast food joints, Seattle-based Starbucks is offering 8-ounce cups of coffee with unlimited refills for a buck on a trial basis in some of its 6,793 outlets. Question is will some of Starbucks ritzy customers want to be seen toting a cheap cuppa joe when they are usta to paying at least twice that much? The coffeetorium is following the lead of other food outlets that are now competing with 99-cent stores by matching their prices on some items.
Timber Industry 1991-2000
In May, Roslesprom began a fight with Herlitz for the Balakhna Pulp and Paper Combine. Miron Tatsyun sent a letter to GKI and the Security Council stating that in 1991, when the company's charter capital was being formed, equipment worth $145 million had not been included in the property assessment. Roslesprom requested that the government increase Volga's capital stock and transfer the second issue to state control, i.e., to Roslesprom. GKI rejected this proposal.
In May, there was a boom on the Russian stock market. The price of shares of major timber processing enterprises, including the Syktyvkar and Bratsk timber processing combines and the Archangelsk Pulp and Paper Combine, increased by 300-700% and were actively bought up.
At the end of May, the Russian Fund for Federal Property (RFFI) put up for sale the first large block of share of a major wood chemistry plant at Ust-Ilim.
Exclusive Afghanistan
The arguments about the politics go on, despite the military. The reasons for this, of course, are access and danger: journalists have to be embedded, and for them to go to the front line in Afghanistan or Iraq without the protection of the military would be bonkers and, more important to most newspapers and television channels, far too expensive. Get too close to soldiers and you lose your even-handedness; you identify with them. So, military news on television is limited to shaky phone video taken by amateurs or junior reporters in flak jackets, paraphrasing military press releases from the roof of an international hotel, out of harm’s way. Then there are the reality shows that look at a regiment with an invariably adoring, sentimental eye; in truth, it’s difficult not to like soldiers when they’re on your side.
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Savannah Ladd, 12, of Bremerton, Wash., looks up for help as she does push-ups in front of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiter Saturday, March 31, 2007, at the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, Wash. The mall sponsored the annual Military Appreciation Day which featured military demonstrations, static displays and a kids' boot camp. .
II. Sources of Weapons for Militias in Punjab and Kashmir
II. Sources of Weapons for Militias in Punjab and Kashmir India has long accused the government of Pakistan of directly supplying weapons, as well as other forms of military support, to militants in Punjab and Kashmir. Most long-time observers of the region concur.(5) Both Sikh and Kashmiri militant leaders have acknowledged as much,(6) and many of the weapons used by militants in both states clearly were acquired in Pakistan. Nevertheless, there are many complexities and uncertainties about the arms supply relationship. Available evidence suggests that most weapons obtained by Sikh and Kashmiri militants have come from two sources inside Pakistan: the arms bazaar in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (nwfp)--a vast black market for weapons--and members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (isi), operating either on their own or with the tacit or explicit complicity of the central Pakistani government.
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