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THE SYNAGRO SLUDGE DEAL: Phone tap of others, video led FBI to Collins' door (Detroit Free Press)

9 Jul 2008

Detroit City Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Collins said two federal agents visited her house Tuesday without notice and revealed that two people in a wiretapped phone conversation had linked her to the accepting of a bribe in the Synagro Technologies sludge contract. Collins said she told the agents, "That's a lie. Nobody's given me anything."

Mphasis to tap rural workforce (Business Standard India)

9 Jul 2008

Information technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) company Mphasis is looking at entering the rural parts of the country to tap the largely untapped workforce in the next three to four years. During the current year, the company is planning to add more facilities in tier II and III cites.

Pelosi Calls On Bush To Tap Strategic Reserves (CBS News)

9 Jul 2008

In the ongoing showdown over high gas prices, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called on President Bush Tuesday to dip into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower the price at the pump. Bush initially opposed an earlier call this year to stop shipments to the country's strategic oil reserves before Congress forced him to take that step. Now, Pelosi is asking him to go even further by ...