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Marie Osmond makes emotional return to performing

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Published: March 10, 2010

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With tears in her eyes and her voice shaking at times, Marie Osmond donned her bravest face Tuesday night as she took to the stage for the first time since the death of her son for a show that she dedicated to him.

Public-speaking is difficult anyway, but making a speech with the intention of making folk laugh is even worse.”But in the end, I did feel that they had enjoyed themselves and done something they hadn’t done before It gave them a different look, a different perspective. This is another way of getting people together and focused and excited,” he said.The session leader, Dominic Holland, a professional stand-up comedian for eight years, said he felt quite sorry for the group initially “Obviously it was terrifying. “There was this mix of people who had never done anything like it before. But by lunchtime we were all really into it.”Some companies send people on challenges and adventure things – that’s one form of exhilaration. Practicalities included learning how to use a microphone properly.”I do a lot of presentations to clients and you do it in a linear way But this made you think laterally,” Mr Andrews said. I couldn’t imagine myself standing up on a stage with a two- minute comedy sequence.

But I found it really liberating.”The pilot workshop with a mixed group of professionals began with exercises designed to encourage trust and make the participants “open up”, such as mimicking walking down the road and bumping into people.They moved on to writing material, taking ordinary situations and exaggerating them to draw out the ridiculous, then performing a routine to the rest of the group. Stand-up just gives you a chance to think in different terms – how to turn words and ideas around in your head.”
A workshop series will be launched next month after a pilot session by one of Jongleurs’ regular comics proved a hit. Jim Andrews, managing director of Thinc! Digital, an interactive media business, was one of the guinea-pigs and now plans to send some of his staff.”I really enjoyed it – it was great fun,” he said “I was a bit tentative initially. But he said the overlap between companies which benefited from the work of the ECGD and those with members on the advisory committee “must be a cause for concern”.. THE ART of stand-up comedy is the new weapon in the battle for corporate success. Jongleurs, the comedy club chain, is to offer lessons to executives who think that a sense of humour might give them a competitive edge. Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs’ co-founder, said modern bosses are discovering that there is more to comedy than knowing a few jokes “We’re moving into an era where ideas are paramount.

Neither company currently has representatives on the ECGD advisory council.Critics of the Ilisu Dam on the river Tigris, near Turkey’s border with Syria and Iraq, say it will drown one of the world’s oldest towns and risk starting a new war in the Middle East.When Mr Byers queried the structure of the ECGD in 1995, he stressed he was not suggesting any wrongdoing by any of the council members. His criticism of the credits guarantee system has been seized on by opponents of the dam who say its construction would chiefly benefit large corporations.Balfour Beatty was one of those companies represented on the 10-strong ECGD advisory council in 1995 when Mr Byers raised the issue Another was the Weir Group. Viscount Weir, a co-founder of the Weir Group, an engineering company, is also chairman of BICC plc, the parent company of Balfour Beatty.At the time, official figures showed Balfour Beatty had been involved in three ECGD contracts since joining the advisory council, while the Weir Group had picked up two. This means that the consortium is certain to be paid even if the Turkish government defaults.But the Secretary of State is understood to have grave reservations over the dam which, if built, would drive thousands of Kurds from their homes in the south-east of Turkey.

Mr Byers, in charge of the Export Credits Guarantee Department, is expected to give the go-ahead to the dam project by authorising pounds 200m worth of insurance to the British companies taking part. But when he was in opposition, he raised serious concerns about potential conflicts of interest in the department, pointing out that it was closely advised by the very companies that then benefited from the ECGD’s financial support.
Last week The Independent on Sunday revealed that the Prime Minister wants British firms to press ahead with building the Ilisu Dam, despite international opposition, with the deal underwritten by the ECGD.Mr Byers is being urged to provide pounds 200m of backing to a consortium led by Balfour Beatty in the form of an export credit guarantee. STEPHEN BYERS, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, was embroiled in fresh controversy over British funding of Turkey’s Ilisu Dam yesterday when it emerged he had been highly critical of a department he now heads for its involvement in similar schemes. In 1993 India was forced to sell the helicopters for scrap for pounds 900,000.n A health project backed by the Department for International Development (DFID) in Malawi was plagued by problems because it was forced to source goods in the UK. On more than one occasion pregnancy tests were purchased in the UK which had passed their sell-by date when they reached Malawi.n An Overseas Development Administration (now DFID) report in 1990 found that tied aid led to problems such as inadequate testing by British companies prior to shipping, poor specifications, late arrival of goods, inappropriate technology, operating problems and lack of technical expertise on the ground.. A National Audit Office report concluded the helicopters were provided to support an ailing company rather than tackle poverty in India.

This meant three of the largest schemes were never finished and five were dropped altogether.n In 1992 a UK programme to build a diesel power station in Indonesia resulted in chaos when UK companies supplied incompatible technologies and engines that turned out to be inefficient and expensive to maintain.n In 1984, pounds 65m in aid was given to the Indian Government to purchase Westland Helicopters for offshore oil rigs. The companies were not named but the report concluded that the Third World countries receiving the aid would have got considerably better value for money buying goods and services locally.
n An evaluation of 16 UK water projects in Nepal in 1996 concluded that UK consultants were more interested in building inappropriate infrastructure than dealing with local issues The price of the project soared by 46 per cent. THE INEFFICIENCIES caused by tied aid deals are well catalogued:

n In 1996 a study by the Treasury and Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group found that UK companies had overcharged recipients of British aid by as much as 50 per cent for shovels and hoes, by around 30 per cent for vehicle spares, 25 per cent for buses and 27 per cent for water pumps. All the products in the programme including pregnancy tests had to be bought in the UK – near their expiry dates – instead of locally, massively inflating the costs of the goods that had to be shipped to Malawi.Ms Short’s spokesman said: “Personally Ms Short is very much against tied aid but she knows it is no good doing something unilaterally, and by their very nature multi-lateral arrangements take time.”We understand the position that Action Aid takes and respect the work it has done but we don’t want to go down that unilateral route and it doesn’t solve anything.”.

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DeAngelo Williams, who had a key 31-yard run in that drive, finished the game with 63 rushing yards and didn’t find the endzone. TheNotice contains instructions regarding how to access and view the proxymaterials over the Internet and how to vote electronically over the Internetand in other ways. The region was impacted byhuge currency movements; the Polish zloty lost 23% to the Euro and 26% to theU.S dollar in the second quarter. Otherinformation regarding the participants in the proxy solicitation and adescription of their direct and indirect interests, by security holdings orotherwise, is contained in Hanover’s proxy statement/prospectus and othermaterials referred to in Hanover’s proxy statement/prospectus.Safe Harbor StatementExcept for historical information contained herein, the statements in thisrelease are forward-looking and made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions ofthe Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Colt McCoy had 3,445.Moreover, the Big XII completed an average a 65.4 percent of his passes, seven percent higher than the FBS average. He cited “continuing violations including reprisals against the civilian population, recruitment of child solders by armed groups, and ongoing and widespread acts of sexual violence against women and children which remain extremely worrying”. “This is going to be a summer of rage for the workingclass,” said protester Bryan Simpson, 20, a clerk from Glasgow.”Working class people are expected to pay the price for thedebts of the banks.” While some G20 protesters have adopted slogans such as “Hanga Banker” and “Storm the Banks”, organisers of the London marchsaid the event would be peaceful. He stood up on a stage with the Packers logos behind him everywhere crying as he left the game he loved.The football world did not hear much about the legendary No 4 for a while after that. The Tide may have three backs go over 100 yards, and John Parker Wilson will pass for a “buck-fifty.” Arkansas State’s defensive starters are a decent blue-collar group, but they lack depth, and that will come into play against a physical Alabama offense.ASU hung with Texas in the first game of the 2007 season, but the Vols beat them 48-27. stocks closed well off their session lows, however,after Meredith Whitney, another closely followed bank analyst,said most banks will have made “a little bit of money” in thefirst quarter and capital ratios were sure to getbetter.[ID:nWEN6943] The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI closed down 41.74points, or 0.52 percent, to 7,975.85.

They are sure to shadow Giggs rigorously after his virtuoso intervention against Southampton, putting the onus on Mark Hughes to emerge from goalscoring hibernation.It would be folly, remembering how Sheffield Wednesday came up on the rails last year, to disregard Norwich and Blackburn, who meet tomorrow. Mr Clark admitted encouraging further exports by British companies for munitions manufacture.Mr Steadman said in court that, as a result of the report, firms including Matrix Churchill were told they had to confine future orders to peaceful use. Since winning in Gateshead, the British men have twice finished runners-up. It struck me that we, the owners of these cars, were partly responsible for the demise of that steelworks and the resultant loss of jobs.

EVEN DURING the riots in Bombay, when the food shops shut and the streets were empty of all save the police, it was still possible for Sadiq, a 12- year-old boy, to buy heroin. He drove away in his car to brood, reflecting (as it happens, accurately) that he would probably never play for his country again. As a student he displayed mind-boggling skills as a score reader, transmuted into ear-boggling charisma as a conductor. By now he was one of the leading Soviet Georgian film-makers.

You can’t teach that, it’s just natural instinct.’Fowler had been helped on his way by a visiting offside trap that zig-zagged rather than drew a straight line across the pitch and there was an element of defensive hara-kiri too about the first Liverpool goal.Everton had taken the lead after 20 minutes when Dave Watson had headed in Radosavljevic’s free-kick from six yards, but you suspected the celebrations were continuing, such was the supine way they allowed Ian Rush to equalise, just 31 seconds later.Julian Dicks received the ball from the kick-off and hit a speculative long pass towards the Liverpool captain. It is the first time that the market has mattered in Russian politics.’A sign that the cabinet would listen to industry, however, was the confirmation of Oleg Soskovets, who is close to Mr Chernomyrdin, as first deputy prime minister Mr Aslund described both as ‘Brezhnevite’. This practice has now been stopped and all hormone treatment is done through synthetic products.The civil cases now being prepared will not reach court before late next year. Nor, having seen both men struggle for supremacy, did most of the rest of us. ‘Out’ is the sort of fussy, conspicuous craftsmanship, which went with the conspicuous spending of the Eighties.’Linley?’I asked hesitantly. The dividend was raised 5 per cent to 4.5p, and the shares rose 14p to 261p, writes Alison Eadie.

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‘We reserve the death penalty for people we hate,’ says celebrated defence attorney Roy Black. The restaurant’s tables spread out from the light and airy dining-room and on to the Thames-side pavement. The campus was quiet yesterday after two days of disturbances, but students complained bitterly that the police were not listening to their side of the story, and that Moscow newspapers had too readily accepted the police version.Reports in the papers referred to the students as ‘hooligans’ and said the policeman fired the shot in self-defence. By contrast, British Gas saw the enormous advantages of working with the private sector.Similarly, the old nationalised industry, like the (equally unlamented) Department of Energy, thought of energy conservation as an extension of the old wartime slogan ‘Switch off’. His union and Cohse have shown past mastery at mobilising public sympathy, in the 1990 ambulance dispute.

Gallacher’s decision to give the game the go-ahead must have been marginal. Araiza sings with a bel canto grace and warmth, and if his high notes aren’t thrilling, they’re there. It is based on data such as the number of people who live in an area, the number who come into the area to work and the number of schoolchildren aged five to ten. In the Vilnius headquarters of the Lozoraitis campaign, hopes are pinned on a similar upset this time.’In just three weeks of active electioneering, Mr Lozoraitis has emerged from almost total obscurity to within striking distance of the presidency,’ said Darius Silas, an American-Lithuanian helping the campaign ‘He has gone out to meet the people, to press the flesh. As if to ward off the chaos beyond its doors, every aspect of the apartment’s well-worn, Seventies-style decor was meticulously arranged; the gas oven in the kitchen worked perfectly and the shower usually ran hot, albeit only with a thin trickle.Oddly, everything seemed to be coated with a film of grease, even the plates and utensils (which made one wonder how the surgical instruments were doing at Lena’s hospital) Hygiene was a bit of a problem out in the corridors, too.

Turkish commentators have asked why Mr Kozyrev found the time recently to visit Tehran and not Ankara, and suspect that both countries want to use Armenia as Stalin did, to cut Turkey off from the Turkic world.’The Caucasus is a vital geostrategic link to Turkestan, that is, to Central Asia Now we see the result of this co-operation (with Russia). While sales could improve sharply with recovery so too will the need for working capital, so another rights issue cannot be ruled out.The City is expecting the real recovery to start showing through next year, when profits should rise from the pounds 18m expected this year to pounds 31m, or earnings of 7p a share. But he thought the fact I was doing it to keep the home going for the good of my residents and not to line my own pocket would act in my favour. ‘The Armada are coming,’ the Villa manager warned, recalling that the Spaniards sailed against England from La Coruna some 400 years ago in the early days of European knock-out competition ‘We did a Duke of Wellington getting a draw there. Thanks to Mr Nelson’s remark that an interest rate cut is now unlikely, we know that the Chancellor has followed the advice of the Bank and the Treasury: the half-point cut in interest rates in November did indeed take ‘full account’ of the tax rises announced in the Budget, as was claimed at the time.

For folks in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, believing that Tiger Woods is in the town’s sex rehab clinic is a bit like believing in Santa Claus.

In leaner years, hoteliers are reduced, like theatre managers, to doing ‘deals’, and also to putting on what used, in the Sixties, to be called ‘happenings’.
I was involved in one such happening a few days ago at the Castle in Taunton, giving a talk after dinner. A Sony spokesman refused to comment.Sony acquired the studios from Coca- Cola in 1989 for dollars 3.5bn, prompting protests of foreign domination in Hollywood. Attracted by better returns on shares, they invested pounds 2.5bn in unit trusts in the quarter to June, more than four times the previous year. Alone, ‘confronted by this prodigious anvil of earth and rock,’ Bouvier meditates on the illusory nature of human experience Another world awaits him..

They must assume that an unprecedented circumstance is potentially lethal; nothing can be taken for granted. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon (1976).Standing alongside John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum and other higher- billed co-stars, his was a familiar face. Another car, which was passing when it exploded, had been hurled upside down through the plate-glass window of a travel agency The office had caught fire and quickly burnt out Further up the street lay the body of an elderly man. Never mind that Mr Lamont will have to find the sort of successful monetary policy which eluded such heavyweights as Margaret Thatcher, Mr Lawson and Sir Geoffrey Howe.The damage that the past 10 days have done to Mr Major’s reputation as a conviction politician should not be underestimated The comparison with Harold Wilson is inescapable But, on one point, the Prime Minister remains firm. THERE ARE two images of Henry Kissinger you should dismiss from your mind before you sit down to read this big and, I think, profoundly important book.

‘What sort of bloody name is that?’ one of the lads wondered. Slorc is drawing up a new constitution to give itself legitimacy, and has allowed the foreign press to attend sessions of the constituent assembly, but this too had something other than the desired effect. But it was stopped by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office which used to be known as the Inquisition.The text was then sent to Hobart in Tasmania, where Archbishop Eric D’Arcy has been purging it of ‘feminist’language.Now a British commentary on the catechism has been vehemently denounced by the right-wing group which forced the rewriting of the original document.Mgr Michael Wrenn, one of the leaders of the campaign against inclusive language, told the right-wing Catholic news magazine Catholic World Report that A Commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is edited by Michael Walsh, the librarian of Heythrop College, London, was ‘on crucial points, nothing short of heretical’.'There are a few decent essays. But it was left to the Conservatives – to Sir Keith Joseph under Sir Edward Heath, and Mr Kenneth Clarke under Lady Thatcher – to turn the health service into a bureaucratic nightmare.Democratic socialism would have indicated that a function of government should be carried out either by a minister, who was theoretically responsible to Parliament, or by a local authority, which was with equal reliance on theory accountable to its electors. The popular theory was that Jose, their millionaire Cuban-born father who ran a video distribution company, had been the victim of a Mafia hit. In its first season, its Premier League has attracted six powerful teams.

The 1984-85 miners’ strike was ‘impossibilism’ of a high order.Yet Scargill, a Barnsley boy from a pit family, rose through the ranks of the Yorkshire miners with the support of the Communist Party machine. In December 1988, the employee told the employer that he no longer wished to emigrate to Australia The employer treated the employment as terminated. Both turnover and customer spend in the continuing businesses would show healthy increases over 1991/2.Full-year profits last time were pounds 6.9m before tax Brokers forecast pounds 8- pounds 9m for this year.. There was a loud appeal – from the umpire, followed by an embarrassed apology] No one on the fielding side appealed; I think we were all too surprised by the episode and anyway the ball was considered to be missing the stumps The batsman continued his innings.

The original Beveridge Report was predicated on full employment, or something near it. This was to take longer than Eggar had expected.John Major chaired at least two Downing Street meetings on the subject. Paul Masefield’s 64th-minute cross from the right reached an unchallenged Francis, who headed a simple second.Stockport County: Edwards; Masefield, (Knowles, 80), Todd, Frain, Miller, Finley, Gannon, Carstairs, Francis, Beaumont, Muir. What is the definition of ‘obtaining by deception’, for instance? Will this extend to those attending annual meetings without declaring they are shareholders? Will leaked documents become untouchable? And what about whistle-blowers?There is a simple solution that will satisfy bankers and journalists alike.

Rock singer and reality TV personality Bret Michaels remained in critical condition Sunday in a hospital intensive care unit, his publicist said.

Which is a big problem I have with his “multiple weight” claim that he gets so much undue credit for. He wasn’t only adolescent, but he was also fighting in the Phillipines, against club fighters. So that leaves me with this little so-called column: Tracking Manny Parra. However, another AFC East team has been all over the news lately.The New York Jets are a team who certainly improved their core in the offseason. This can easily be determined by simply looking at their past performances. From broadband communicationsinfrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions tohigh-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave ofinnovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be moreconnected and more mobile Motorola (NYSE: MOT) had sales of US $30.1 billionin 2008. Why he bashed John O’Hara right in the mouth behindthe saloon the other day.

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Winter and Mr.Wintrob will continue to report directly to Mr Liddy Commenting on the contributions made to AIG by Mr. While Matthew Stafford may not be all that they thought he would be, if he stays within himself and avoids panicking, he has plenty of help to get the job done.This is a big game for Georgia as they should have plenty of returning stars once again, and they desperately need something to build on after the season-ending loss to Georgia Tech. See Mitch’s Capital One Bowl pick against the spread. Learn more at Family Foundations MinnesotaHeadquartered in Laporte, Minnesota, Family Foundations Minnesota is a campfacility for adoptive and foster care children. In a free agent pool of substitute QBs, VY has the greatest upside.

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Does Melvin have the nerve to pull off such a deal?If you are a Blue Jays’ fan, how would you feel about losing Halladay and what would you like in return for him? If you are a Brewers’ fan, what are you (realistically) willing to give up to bring Halladay to Milwaukee and do you think it would be a bigger move than the Sabathia acquisition?The next three weeks of July are going to start to really heat up, and Milwaukee might become the center of the baseball world for a second straight year.   . It can’t be stressed enough just how well we need Ollie to come through, and then we need Maine back as well.  For now, Ollie has to make Tim Redding the mop-up man in the bullpen, because let’s face it Tim Redding stinks.Let me say that again: Tim Redding stinks. ) If there was one man that played with commitment, hard work, intensity and humility last season at Real Madrid then Gonzalez Higuain would arguably stand out amongst his club colleagues.When he moved from River Plate in 2007 he didn’t perform much until last season and what an incredible season it was for him. *grins his creepy grin*Cena: Well…sir…I think you are forgetting about Mania which is only three months away Hunter…Er…Paul is injured so–Vince: Oh yeah You’ll be needing an opponent for Mania.

In a new interview, Lindsay Lohan admits she feared for her life while abusing substances including cocaine to deal with family problems.

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New production volumes from project additions inQatar, the North Sea, and Malaysia were offset by natural field decline andlower European demand Earnings from U.S. Upstream operations were $360 million, $1,271 million lowerthan the first quarter of 2008 Non-U.S. Upstream earnings were $3,143 million,down $4,011 million from last year. Downstream earnings of $1,133 million were down $33 million from the firstquarter of 2008.

Volume and mix effects reduced earnings about $400 million,while unfavorable foreign exchange impacts and higher operating expensesdecreased earnings about $300 million Higher margins increased earnings about$700 million. Petroleum product sales of 6,434 kbd were 387 kbd lower than lastyear’s first quarter, mainly reflecting asset sales and lower demand U.S. Downstream earnings were $352 million, down $46 million from the firstquarter of 2008 Non-U.S. Downstream earnings of $781 million were $13 millionhigher than last year.

Chemical earnings of $350 million were $678 million lower than the first quarterof 2008. Lower volumes and lower margins each reduced earnings approximately$300 million Unfavorable foreign exchange effects also reduced earnings. Firstquarter prime product sales of 5,527 kt (thousands of metric tons) were 1,051 ktlower than the prior year due to lower demand. Corporate and financing expenses of $436 million increased by $347 million dueoverall to net lower interest income. During the first quarter of 2009, Exxon Mobil Corporation purchased 107 millionshares of its common stock for the treasury at a gross cost of $7.9 billion.These purchases included $7.0 billion to reduce the number of sharesoutstanding, with the balance used to offset shares issued in conjunction withthe company’s benefit plans and programs.

Shares outstanding were reduced from4,976 million at the end of the fourth quarter to 4,880 million at the end ofthe first quarter. Share purchases to reduce shares outstanding are currentlyanticipated to equal $5.0 billion through the second quarter of 2009. Purchasesmay be made in both the open market and through negotiated transactions, and maybe increased, decreased or discontinued at any time without prior notice. ExxonMobil will discuss financial and operating results and other matters on awebcast at 10 a.m. 160 (FAS 160), “Noncontrolling Interests inConsolidated Financial Statements – an Amendment of ARB No 51″. FAS 160 changedthe accounting and reporting for minority interests, which will berecharacterized as noncontrolling interests and classified as a component ofequity.FAS 160 required retrospective adoption of the presentation anddisclosure requirements for existing minority interests.All other requirementsof FAS 160 will be applied prospectively.

The adoption of FAS 160 did not have amaterial impact on the Corporation`s financial statements.References to total corporate earnings mean net income attributable toExxonMobil (U.S. GAAP) from the income statement.Unless otherwise indicated,references to earnings, special items, earnings excluding special items,Upstream, Downstream, Chemical and Corporate and Financing segment earnings, andearnings per share are ExxonMobil’s share after excluding amounts attributableto noncontrolling interests.Effective January 1, 2009, ExxonMobil adopted the Financial Accounting StandardsBoard’s Staff Position (FSP) on the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) Issue No.03-6-1, “Determining Whether Instruments Granted in Share-Based PaymentTransactions are Participating Securities”.The FSP required that all unvestedshare-based payment awards that contain nonforfeitable rights to dividendsshould be included in the basic Earnings Per Share (EPS) calculation. Prior-yearEPS numbers have been adjusted retrospectively on a consistent basis with 2009reporting. This standard did not affect the consolidated financial position orresults of operations. Attachment IEXXON MOBIL CORPORATION FIRST QUARTER 2009(millions of dollars, unless noted) First Quarter 20092008Earnings / Earnings Per Share 1 Total revenues and other income 64,028116,854 Total costs and other deductions56,17896,380Income before income taxes7,850 20,474Income taxes3,148 9,302 Net income including noncontrolling interests 4,702 11,172Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests 152 282 Net income attributable to ExxonMobil (U.S. 267744 Corporate and financing(436 ) (89 ) Net income attributable to ExxonMobil4,55010,890Special Items UpstreamUnited States00 Non-U.S 00 DownstreamUnited States00 Non-U.S 00 ChemicalUnited States00 Non-U.S. 00 Corporate and financing00 Corporate total00 Earnings Excluding Special ItemsUpstreamUnited States3601,631 Non-U.S 3,1437,154 DownstreamUnited States352398 Non-U.S 781768 ChemicalUnited States83 284 Non-U.S.


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