HOUSTON, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BJ Services Company (BJS-NYSE, CBOE, PCX) today reported that revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2010, which ended December 31, 2009, was $931.5 million, representing a 6% increase from the $878.2 million reported in the...
(Animation: McAdam) The cost to taxpayers for “creating or saving” jobs in Kentucky seems to be declining somewhat. A report last November indicated that across the nation it cost over one-half million bucks to create each “stimulus...
MIAMI Venezuela's narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chávez is facing one of the worst political moments of his 11-year presidency, and new polls show that - for the first time in several years - there is a light at the end of the tunnel for the opposition. In recent...
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- There are numerous explanations for the North Carolinabasketball team's struggles over the past five weeks. Sunday, however, the Tar Heels offered no defense for their latest loss. Maryland shredded North Carolina 92-71 at Comcast Center, thriving...
By Jorge Barrera, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 8, 2010 4:08 AM The government of Hugo Chavez has responded to Canadian criticism it was "shrinking democraticspace" in Venezuela by saying it will take no lessons from an "ultraright" government that "closed " Parliament...
It's election year in Australia and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is facing grief over his central policy of a cap-and-trade program to try to curb carbon emissions. Polls show Rudd's Labour party losing ground to the conservative opposition coalition of Liberal and...
The history of Vancouver and "British" Columbia's does not sit well with UBC Prof. Henry Yu. He wants us to reject our past, including the dominance of English in our lives. He feels "ruined" because he doesn't speak Chinese, and blames our society. He complains that we...
They've been dubbed everything from the Surveillance Games to the Bailout Games to Olympics Inc., and British historian George Monbiot has aptly characterized the Olympics as "a legacy of a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich ... Everywhere they go, they become...
With Vancouver set to welcome the world, it's understandable that Premier Gordon Campbell, Finance Minster Colin Hansen and the provincial Liberal government are focused almost exclusively on ensuring a successful Olympics. But before the Games kick off this week,...
It was a meeting of the titans as two women's figure skating legends took to the ice at Robson Square on Sunday. It's been 22 years since Katarina Witt and Elizabeth Manley faced off at the 1988 CalgaryOlympics. A meeting that saw Witt walk away with the gold medal for...
