Word: alaskan
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...Captain Joseph Hazelwood feels equally cheated. Federal laws grant immunity to captains who report oil spills. Hazelwood quickly reported his, but Alaskan officials are bent on frying him anyway...
...with shock and indignation. Last week it was Exxon's turn to be shocked. U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh announced that the company had been indicted on five criminal counts stemming from the March 1989 oil spill. That action, which reportedly followed the breakdown of a plea bargain that Alaskan officials opposed as too lenient, could cost Exxon $700 million in fines if the company is convicted. Said Thornburgh: "We intend to see that the laws are fully and strictly enforced...
...government regulation or public pressure. In September an alliance of environmental groups, bankers and investment-fund managers, known as the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, unveiled a set of guidelines for corporate conduct called the Valdez Principles (a name taken from the Exxon Valdez, the tanker responsible for the Alaskan oil spill). Firms that agree to the guidelines must pledge, among other things, to conserve energy, reduce waste and market environmentally safe products...
...year-old Massachusetts- born Sikh of French-Canadian extraction, in a turban and a Ralph Lauren polo shirt? Or that he read about this 102-acre property one Sunday in 1986 and bought it on a hunch three days later for $17.25 million, outbidding a group of Alaskan Indians bearing federal pollution-compensation credits? Around Singh, one sometimes needs to stop, press rewind and take it all in once more, slowly...
From one woman in the v.i.p. section who sported a "Blind Lesbians from Hell" logo to another with the starkly-lettered slogan "Alaskan Fisherwomyn for Choice," it was the clothes that made the "Mobilization for Women's Lives" last Sunday afternoon in Washington...