Take a look at the endless rows of simple crosses and stars of 19- and 20-year-olds from places like Montana and Pennsylvania, who crossed the ocean to die in foreign fields for the cause of freedom.
Such conflicts, though limited so far, could quickly get out of control once the foreign-run fields start producing next year.
If Americans expect U.S. oil companies to be allowed to take equity positions in oil and gas fields around the world, how could we prevent a foreign company from owning fields here?
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The business side of the trip involved company visits in Beijing and Shanghai with Chinese and foreign businesses in various fields.
After Chavez nationalized foreign-run oil fields, critics say oil production has slowed.
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When employers recruit on U.S. college campuses they are likely to find a majority of graduate students in technology-related fields are foreign nationals.
Half to two-thirds of graduate students on U.S. campuses in key technology fields are foreign nationals, meaning it is unrealistic to expect employers can ignore such a large pool of talent and still compete globally.
It was in this spirit, under the guidance of the Academic Council, that the Center created the National Security Academy , a two-day conference designed to facilitate interactions between members of the Academic Council, serving legislators and senior officials, and current or recent students pursuing careers in the foreign and defense policy fields.
Newly elected Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is urging his country to amend its constitution to allow foreign investment in Mexican oil fields.
Following three years of decreasing production levels, the North African nation realized it needed a new framework to entice increasingly anxious foreign firms back to the fields.
But many make the same argument against legal foreign workers, especially in the fields of computers and engineering.
The chief of staff, Yousef Mangoush, organized a more professional border guard unit to patrol there as well as a separate unit to guard critical infrastructure facilities like oil fields and barracks where foreign oil company employees work and live.
Likewise, ExxonMobil has access to oil fields and refineries in many foreign countries.
Yet none of those countries allows foreign investors unfettered access to develop new fields or increase production from existing ones.
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Employers are already crying out for a relaxation of the law, to let in foreign specialists to meet shortages in such fields as information technology, engineering and biotechnology.
He has been trying since 2007 to change foreign oil contracts from production-sharing agreements, under which the foreign producers can have partial ownership of the fields they operate, to servicing contracts, under which the producers would have to pay a production fee and then get reimbursed for the cost of their investment.
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However, in key fields, such as electrical engineering, foreign nationals earn nearly 66 percent of the Ph.
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He has announced that Venezuelan troops will occupy the oil fields beginning May 1st, and has warned foreign companies not to seek "excessive compensation" from his government.
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Iran would be able to cover its costs more successfully if it were able to attract foreign investors to develop its increasingly antiquated oil and gas fields.
In the fields, a walnut face under a conical coolie hat gazed at the foreign visitor.
The STAR Act, introduced by John Cornyn (R-TX), would eliminate the diversity lottery and redirect those green cards toward foreign graduates of American universities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM).
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Because fully 60% of all foreign born graduate students in the United States are presently immersed in obtaining degrees in the science and engineering fields.
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More maddening, of 568, 000 foreign students who studied in the United States in 2008, 248, 000 were enrolled in science and engineering fields.
Although the country's crude is abundant and cheap to produce, Iraq hardly provides the bonanza that foreign companies like BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Lukoil hoped for when they signed deals to develop its big fields.
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