{"id":2121,"date":"2006-10-23T12:26:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T16:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/better_than_exp\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T16:26:54","slug":"better_than_exp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/better_than_exp\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Better Than Expected&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Halliburton's profit rises 22% in quarter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-halliburton23oct23,1,5067157.story?coll=la-headlines-business\">Heh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KBR has kept the company [Halliburton], once led by Vice President Dick Cheney, under lawmakers&#8217; microscope for its work in Iraq since a U.S.-led coalition invaded the country three years ago.<br \/>\nHalliburton&#8217;s Iraq-related work contributed nearly $1.2 billion in revenue in the third quarter and $45 million of operating income, a performance that pleased analysts.<br \/>\n&#8220;Iraq was better than expected,&#8221; said Jeff Tillery, an analyst with Pickering Energy Partners Inc. &#8220;Overall, there is nothing really to question or be skeptical about. I think the results are very good.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice that someone is doing better than expected in Iraq.  Too bad the same can&#8217;t be said for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2006\/10\/23\/news\/ME_GEN_Iraq_US_Casualties.php\">American troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/better_than_exp\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Better Than Expected&#8221;\"><p>Heh: KBR has kept the company [Halliburton], once led by Vice President Dick Cheney, under lawmakers&#8217; microscope for its work in Iraq since a U.S.-led coalition invaded the country three years ago. Halliburton&#8217;s Iraq-related work contributed nearly $1.2 billion in revenue in the third quarter and $45 million of operating income, a performance that pleased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}