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Brazil's Earth Day Present: A Sustainable Energy Policy

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Ehrmann

Brazil's sustainable energy dividend is the result of generations of trust and cooperation between a strong federal government, parastatal companies and global businesses who have developed the knack of working with them.

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Big Business Dominates Small Business Contracting Programs

Chris Gunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beltway Bandits, Fortune 500, Small Business, Corporate America, Economy, Procurement, Contracting, Federal Contracting, Corporate Power, American Small Business League, Business News
Chris Gunn

This is a great story, which ran across Associated Press media outlets today regarding the unequal distribution of small business contracts in the Washington D.C. area.

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Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rough Riders, Wisdom, Coast Guard Commencement, Gamechangers, Dick Cheney, Bush, Reagan, Beltway Bandits, Humility, Honesty, Lbj, Beauty, Hat, Valor, Cowboy, Horses, Politics News
Mike Bonifer

The Bush Gang was not the first to appropriate cowboy iconography for politics, but since they did, to be called a cowboy has, almost impossibly it seems to me, become some kind of slur.

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