Word: chevron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperate search for new supplies, city officials are considering importing Canadian water in tankers or barges, employing a never used Chevron oil pipeline or building the country's biggest desalination plant. Despite the hardships, most Santa Barbarans would rather live parched than overpopulated...
...Milken's trademark letters stating that he was "highly confident" of lining up the necessary financing. Just for the ominous letters, Milken charged fees as high as $3.5 million. Backed by Milken, Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens attacked Gulf Oil in 1984, forcing the energy giant to merge with Chevron and earning nearly $400 million from his seven-month raid. Later Milken bankrolled Carl Icahn in a $1.2 billion takeover of TWA. Supported by Drexel's bonds, the little-known firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts became America's buyout king, acquiring 35 companies for more than $60 billion since...