After some false starts and pratfalls, BP cut a deal that will leave BP owning 20% of state-controlled Rosneft, which will become the world's largest publicly traded oil company.
Past efforts to cut hospital queues have been based on the false assumption that they are a simple backlog, and that increasing the rate of treatments will eventually clear the backlog.
He acknowledged that a government default would be "catastrophic, " but said the argument was based on a "false premise, " because the U.S. can cut spending and reduce the deficit.
Iranian officials said Sunday that the United States has cut off discussions with the Tehran government that encompassed a range of issues, levying what the Iranians called false accusations that Iran provided a haven for al Qaeda members.