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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.
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?
The reports agree that this a key victory for House Speaker Denny Hastert, who cajoled his fractious and narrow majority--including a cadre of moderates skittish about using so much of the surplus for tax cuts--into supporting the legislation.
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.
The South China Morning Post said that the offer "gives Turkey another chance to deal with its largest and most fractious minority in a reasonable way.