U.S. sends a message by stepping up crackdown on foreign business bribes
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 8th, 2010 5:35 am by HL
U.S. sends a message by stepping up crackdown on foreign business bribes
Federal authorities want companies to know that the cost of paying bribes to win overseas contracts is growing steeper by the day.
5 workers killed in explosion at Middleton, Conn., power plant
CONNECTICUT An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out the walls of an unfinished power plant in Connecticut and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers, injuring a dozen or more, and leaving crews picking through debris for more possible…
David Plouffe advising White House on 2010 midterm elections
Ask David Plouffe how Democrats can recover from their electoral setbacks over the past few months and he has a simple answer: Republicans.
Mass. wind farm that Obama administration might support meets strong resistance
ABOARD THE IDA LEWIS — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar journeyed out into Nantucket Sound on a Coast Guard vessel last week to signal the Obama administration’s readiness to put some muscle behind wind energy. To do that, Salazar has to resolve a battle over building a wind farm on 25 square mile…