17 Mexico's Ailing Oil Giant A recent spate of accidents has befallen state-owned oil monopoly Pemex, and highlights the complicated symbiotic relationship between the company and the government that is supposed to regulate it.
Like so many other governors, Paul E. Patton has a long wish list of proposals for the new legislative session, and none is more heartfelt and laced with guilt than his remedy for what he finds has befallen the state's coal miners afflicted with the respiratory disorder called black lung.
With a steady stream of disasters that has befallen the state, housing in general is at a premium.
With all of the tragedies that have befallen the state in recent years -- from the Tucson shootings to the most recent loss of 19 elite firefighters -- this nascent spirit of solidarity has been at play, even if at times almost imperceptibly so.
It mostly happens that there is some warning when great misfortunes are about to befall a state or nation; and so it was in this instance, for the Chians had previously had some strange tokens sent to them.
In April 2010 calamity again befell the state when a deepwater oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of the Louisiana coast, exploded, burned, and then collapsed, creating a rapidly spreading oil spill.
Last week, David J. O'Reilly, chairman and chief executive of the Chevron Corporation, sent a letter to Gov. Gray Davis warning him of the economic damage that would befall the state if oil refineries were not exempted.
This latest crisis to befall Rakhine state, which has seen 200 killed and 115,000 displaced – most of them Rohingya – tests Burma's recent transition to democracy and its commitment to establishing full human rights for those within its borders.
"When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state".
His intentions may be good, but when such small men control the affairs, calamities from Heaven and injuries from men will befall the state..
Similar fates have befallen many "universal" state reforms hailed as models for the nation.
