Energy bill sails through House
The News Review:
- Energy bill sails through House
- Young doctors being left without jobs, BMA warns
- Now it’s just a two-card trick for spinner
- Italian banks
- Venezuela and Latin America
Energy bill sails through House
MarketWatch – Jul 28, 2005
John Dingell, D-Mich. , one of the co-authors of the agreement, expressed his satisfaction that the bill steered clear of raising vehicle fuel economy standards that could hurt the automotive sector, based in Detroit. “My autoworker constituents will be glad that we missed an opportunity to impose harsh fuel efficiency requirements on our home-grown auto manufacturers,” Dingell said. “They already make many models that are very fuel efficient that the American people can buy right now,” the lawmaker added. The total price tag for the bill is $11. 6 billion, with $3 billion in revenue raisers offsetting a portion of the cost of the tax incentives. In an effort to relax rules that restrict utility industry mergers, the bill would repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
Young doctors being left without jobs, BMA warns
Guardian Unlimited – Jul 28, 2005
“The Department of Health said it was taking the issue very seriously, although there had always been healthy competition for senior house officer posts, it said, particularly in popular areas such as London. It was aware that applications for most posts had risen this year and that this might mean doctors would not find work in their first choice hospital or speciality. The BMA survey was “very small”, the department said, but “we highly value our home-grown doctors in whose education and training we have invested heavily. About this article Close Young doctors being left without jobs, BMA warns This article appeared in.
Now it’s just a two-card trick for spinner
The Age – Jul 28, 2005
Why can’t English batsmen play leg spin? With the advent of theone-day league in 1969, containment became a captain’s priority,and the fragile art of wrist spin was regarded as an expensiveluxury. By the mid-’80s there were none. In recent years, only IanSalisbury, among home-grown leggies, has survived for any length oftime on the circuit. As a result, batsmen lack prolonged exposure to leg spin, as thesuccess of Mushtaq Ahmed and Danish Kaneria in county cricketunderlines. That said, Warne is by no means unplayable. Pietersenillustrated that, scoring 47 runs off the 63 balls he faced fromhis Hampshire colleague at Lord’s. He obviously benefited from timein the nets against him, picked his variations, and his shotselection was appropriate.
Italian banks
economist.com – Jul 28, 2005
But more is now at stake. Antonio Fazio, governor of the Bank of Italy, is in trouble up to his eyebrows. Gianpiero Fiorani, the boss of a home-grown rival bidder for Antonveneta, Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI), is a friend of his. Leaked transcripts reported in the press of telephone conversations between the two tapped by government investigators suggest that the governor may have been less than neutral in his handling of the bids. There are now calls, predictably, for him to resign. On July 27th Consob, Italy’s market regulator, suspended BPI’s bid for Antonveneta as a “precaution”.
Venezuela and Latin America
economist.com – Jul 28, 2005
In order to gain access to it please either Log in, Activate your complimentary web account if you are a print subscriber, or Subscribe now Venezuela and Latin America Venezuela and Latin America Jul 28th 2005 From The Economist print edition WITH a swipe at American “imperialism” and reports on social problems in Latin America, a new regional television channel began pilot transmissions on July 24th. Telesur, backed by the governments of Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela, bills itself as a home-grown answer to CNN that will let Latin Americans see themselves “through their own eyes”. But 70% of the channel’s $10m start-up cost comes from Venezuela’s government. To many, Telesur looks like propaganda for Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s president, and his “Bolivarian” revolution, named for South America’s independence hero but of increasingly socialist bent. Predictably enough, at the urging of Connie Mack, a Florida Republican, the United States’ House of Representatives greeted Telesur by approving an amendment to the Foreign Appropriations Act calling for rival propaganda broadcasts. That allowed Mr Chávez to gloat that by getting his channel on air he had “scored the first goal” against George Bush.