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Instead of a tightly disciplined cartel administering prices to a supine world market, OPEC more closely resembles a fractious trade association struggling to bring supply in line with demand even as its efforts are sabotaged by its own members.
The LAT goes with the fractious Republican caucus he will try to lead, which the WSJ also addresses in a front-pager.
The first few minutes are particularly trying--direction seems to have been handed over to a fractious committee of prepubescent speed freaks.
The editorial described India as "an overpopulated country with a fractious, hungry population, an unstable government, and age-old hatred with its neighbours" and said "the world has good reason to be nervous" about that country's new nuclear capabilities.
So how and why did two families of scale insects tame and domesticate their potentially fractious polar bodies, rather than killing them like normal animals do?