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To: Ilaine who wrote (106376)	6/4/2001 1:28:30 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

>> Yukos Upset by New U.S. Energy Strategy By Harry Dunphy The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Russian energy companies are disappointed that U.S. President George W. Bush has not included them in his energy strategy, one of their leaders said Friday. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, chairman of Yukos, Russia's second-biggest oil company, also said the Russian business community expected a lot to come out of a summit meeting in two weeks between Bush and President Vladimir Putin in Slovenia during the U.S. leader's European visit. "It's no secret some people in both countries are looking backward" when it comes to U.S.-Russian relations Khodorkovsky said at the National Press Club. "We large Russian energy companies are interested in seeing an end to this kind of thinking and looking forward." Speaking about the Bush administration's energy strategy, Khodorkovsky said he was "disappointed that this policy does not include Russia as a player. Russia is regarded as a country that can only cause problems." He said while distance precluded Russian oil shipments to the United States, there was no reason why a bookkeeping system to trade oil called swaps could not be established. He said he hoped that when Bush and Putin set the course for future U.S. relations at their meeting trust will develop between them. Khodorkovsky and other business leaders who met with Putin on Thursday, said the Russian leader realizes his country's future depends on further integration into the world economy. Khodorkovsky, 37, is often identified as part of a coterie of a tycoons who dubbed themselves Russia's "oligarchs." They acquired companies for rock-bottom prices through privatization sales in the 1990s. He is attending a conference of American and Russian business leaders at which he expected to have informal contacts with Bush administration officials. Khodorkovsky presided over some of Russia's worst shareholder-abuse scandals in the 1990s, including the now defunct Menatep bank. Menatep reportedly came under investigation in the Bank of New York money-laundering scheme, but has denied any wrongdoing. Yukos has 11.4 billion barrels of proven reserves, putting it in second place behind LUKoil and had net income in 2000 of $2.5 billion. It plans to raise production to 1.5 million barrels of crude oil a day by 2005, output comparable to OPEC member Libya. Production this year is expected to be 1.16 billion barrels per day.<< themoscowtimes.com

To: Ilaine who wrote (106376)	6/4/2001 1:46:03 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

>>>"Connect the dots" to what? Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs. They're for inexperienced workers just starting up the job ladder. The only time I ever was paid minimum wage, I was a waitress, or a cocktail waitress, and I made so much money in tips that the tiny little paycheck I got was an afterthought.<<< Well good for you. My experience was not unlike your own. So good for us. We were the pimply faced girl teens or early 20s somethings with then little waists and good legs working for tips while either living at home, the dorm or double and tripled up with roommates in a cheap apt. Yes, those were the days. What fun. Some day we knew we could look back and laugh. And I don't for one minute think it's like that (or was like that) for everyone. Did it ever occur to you that this is the only road or the end of the road for many people. There's no up the ladder? That's there's no Mom or Dad paying tuition or co-signing a student loan? No opportunity for part time enrollment in school or a job training program because there's no time when your working every hour you can at a wage you can't support yourself with anyway? And connecting the dots had nothing to do with the above. It had to do with why workers can't get the number of hours they want from their primary employer because there is a concerted effort on the part of many employers to not grant close to 8 hrs. a day or 40 hrs. per week so they can avoid the incidence of over time and incurring a benefits requirement...which you still apparently believe isn't the case.