The United States Army's path of officer Professional Military Education, or PME, requires all majors to attend Intermediate Level Education, or ILE, between their 10th and 14th year of service. With few exceptions,...
HEADNOTE Raimundo Pereira (below), President of the National People's Assembly of Guinea-Bissau, talked with African Business when he visited London to promote investment, reform and privatisation. Pereira, a lawyer who also worked for...
HEADNOTE Guinea-Bissau has largely fallen off the map of dynamic Africa but this small country has no shortage of investment opportunities. In November, a British All-Party Parliamentary Group and Ecobank organised a summit...
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Municipality of Anchorage is one of Alaska's most prominent and populous urban areas. Nowhere else in the state contains such a substantial population concentrated in one place--and within easy reach...
I have been a member of Grassroots Productions since it started about 30 years ago. I have portrayed Uncle Sam at the Greensboro Fun Fourth Festival, which Grassroots sponsors. Uncle Sam also throws...
I am a member of the professional advisers cabinet of the Foundation For The Carolinas, a nonprofit corporation that helps individuals, families, nonprofits and corporations make a positive impact on their communities. As...
Ask an accountant to say which is worse, the annual audit, a fire, or a lawsuit and the response will be reminiscent of the old Jack Benny joke "Your money or your life?"--"I'm...
SPRING, Texas -- Coil Tubing Technology, Inc. ("CTBG" or the "Company")(OTC:CTBG.PK) today provided an update regarding recent funding activities related to the Company, the Company's executive employment agreements, the Company's operations in Canada...
SPRING, Texas -- Coil Tubing Technology, Inc. ("CTBG" or the "Company")(OTC:CTBG.PK) today provided an update regarding the effectiveness of its previously announced 1:300 reverse stock split. As previously reported by the Company, on...
House Transportation Committee Chairman John Mica (R-FIa.) said last week that he would not introduce a transportation reauthorization bill until next year, dashing hopes of proponents to get a bill through to replace...
For more than 100 years, diamond mining has been Namibia's most important mining sector. Today, it provides the highest foreign currency income for the country's development. Since the late 1970s, offshore mining of...
CORPORATIONS & SHAREHOLDERS Alternative Basis Step-up Transactions: Leveraging Disregarded Entities in an F Reorg. The disregarded entity (DE) has created numerous opportunities for well-advised taxpayers to accomplish transactions that may not have previously...
INTRODUCTION Since the establishment of the Soviet Union in the 1920s, various attempts at building socialist economies have been carried out in many countries across the world. However, experience has shown that the...
Trends Keep an eye on these trends identified by the Society for Human Resource Management's Staffing Management Special Expertise Panel: Retention attention. Despite increases in companies' productivity and profits, there have not been...
Republican leaders in the U.S. House fof Representatives said they would introduce a five-year highway funding bill that would be paid for by expanded domestic oil drilling. The measure would allow new oil...
ICCAT Makes Half-hearted Attempt to Protect Overfished Mediterranean Swordfish ISTANBUL -- Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world's oceans, applauded the 22nd Regular Meeting of the International Commission...
Kell Alterman & Runstein associate James Bruce became interested in law during his first job at Enron. After that job came to a tumultuous and highly public end, Bruce attended the University of...
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SPRING, Texas -- Coil Tubing Technology, Inc. ("CTBG" or the "Company")(OTC:CTBG.PK) today announced its financial results for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010. Highlights for the nine months ended September...