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Wall of silence helps keep sector immune to government regulation
Profit and politics combine to keep new laws from being enacted - and old ones from being enforced
By Hani M. Bathish
Special to The Daily Star
Monday, February 26, 2007

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An air of mystery has long cloaked the Lebanese government's role in the quarries issue, and the current impasse over power sharing has only made things worse by wrapping the entire matter in an additional blanket of political uncertainty.

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