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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
... from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan to Bill
Clinton. He is also the Founding Director of the James A. Baker III
Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and recently served as an
advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Djerejian wisely predicted as far back as 1992, that with the end of
Communism, the next worldwide threat would be terrorism. He argued that
"extremism...
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Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... US Goal of Securing the Flow of Oil from the Middle East As early as April 1997, a report from the James A. Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University addressed the problem of "energy security" for the United States, and noted that the US was increasingly threatened by oil shortages in the face of the inability of oil supplies to keep up with world demand. In particular the...
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unsettling economics (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The idea that the oil companies need to get permission to drill offshore is ridiculous. The majors are more intent in using their funds to buy back their stocks to raise the share price to help boost their bonuses. Here are my notes from an interesting study from the James A. Baker III Institute for [...]
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EconoSpeak (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The idea that the oil companies need to get permission to drill offshore is ridiculous. The majors are more intent in using their funds to buy back their stocks to raise the share price to help boost their bonuses. Here are my notes from an interesting study from the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Jaffe, Amy Myers and Ronald Soligo. 2007. "The International Oil Companies."...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... to curb crude's slide in recent weeks.Amy Myers Jaffe, an energy fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, called Thursday's movement "irrational" if the market is reacting solely to tensions with Russia.Crude for October delivery closed up $5.62, or nearly 5 percent, at $121.18 on the New York Mercantile Exchange — its first movement over $120 since...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... University-Cambridge exchange program for the Student Aid Foundation Enterprises.Also honored were James A. Baker, III, who received the Gold Medal, and Barbara D. Boyan, Tom J. Fatjo Jr., and Sam K. Reed also received the Distinguished Alumni Award. Margaret Ann Mauk Barnett, Hally Beth Walker Poindexter, Dan C. Steiner and Richard A. Tapia received Meritorious Service Awards.
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
... last year, up from 30 percent in 2000 and just 1 percent in 1993, according to Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy."Adam Kolton, the National Wildlife Federation's senior director of congressional and federal affairs, said today:"Just one day after President Bush renewed his demand for Congress to turn over more of America's natural resources to Big Oil,...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The five biggest international oil companies plowed about 55 percent of the cash they made from their businesses into stock buybacks and dividends last year, up from 30 percent in 2000 and just 1 percent in 1993, according to Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
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STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... and dividends last year, up from 30% in 2000 and just 1% in 1993, according to Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.The percentage they spend to find new deposits of fossil fuels has remained flat for years, in the mid-single digits.The issue has become more sensitive as lawmakers and Americans frustrated by high gas prices have balked at reports of oil...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Some exchanges are authorized by state or local law, some aren't and some operate underground. But even where they aren't authorized it's rare for law enforcement to take a hard line on such programs, said William Martin, a senior fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. He said authorities often look the other way because they believe the needle-exchange...
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... last year, up from 30 percent in 2000 and just 1 percent in 1993, according to Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.The percentage they spend to find new deposits of fossil fuels has remained flat for years, in the mid-single digits. The issue has become more sensitive as lawmakers and Americans frustrated by high gas prices have expressed concern over...
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... last year, up from 30 percent in 2000 and just 1 percent in 1993, according to Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.The percentage they spend to find new deposits of fossil fuels has remained flat for years, in the mid-single digits.The issue has become more sensitive as lawmakers and Americans frustrated by high gas prices have balked at gaudy reports...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... dividends, up from 30 percent in 2000 and just 1 percent in 1993, according to Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.The percentage of profit they spend to find new deposits of fossil fuels has remained flat for years - in the mid-single digits.The issue has become more sensitive as lawmakers and other Americans frustrated by high gas prices have balked...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... and dividends last year, up from 30% in 2000 and just 1% in 1993, according to Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.The percentage they spend to find new deposits of fossil fuels has remained flat for years, in the mid-single digits.The issue has become more sensitive as lawmakers and Americans frustrated by high gas prices have balked at reports of oil...
