Word: consortium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expropriations in Mexico, Peru, Cuba and Iraq, remain quietly confident that the producing governments in the end will turn to them for help. They already control refineries, pipelines, tankers and gas pumps that, they still believe, the producers cannot do without. Iran nationalized its oilfields in 1951, but a consortium in which Exxon has a 7% share still operates the wells and sells most...
Sadat called for preliminary planning after initial Egyptian victories in the October war, and Mashour took the cue to solicit bids from salvage firms in France, Italy, Holland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Mashour is close to signing a contract, probably with a Dutch-West German-Yugoslav consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will...
...remains is pulverized rock with at least a 12% greater volume than it had before it was mined. Reason: there are spaces between the rock particles that did not exist when the rock was in the ground. What can be done with this spent shale? Colony Development Operation, a consortium of companies including Atlantic Richfield and Standard Oil of Ohio, has spent $1,000,000 on detailed environmental studies of the problem. Conclusion: the powdered shale can be dumped into canyons, watered, fertilized and planted with vegetation to prevent winds from blowing it into dust storms. All this...
...father's recent death. He enlists the aid of a private detective, plus journalists on his father's newsmagazine and his own executive lackeys to get to the roots of the problem. The roots, not surprisingly, are rotten with corruption, and lead to an international consortium headed by an Italian businessman who had something nefarious to do with the Jews in Rome during the second World...
...consortium's largest single shareholder, Harvard has the power and the authority to influence Middle South's decisions on a controversial, 2800-megawatt, coal-burning power plant that Arkansas Power and Light, a Middle South subsidiary, wishes to inflict upon the Arkansas River, the air and the agricultural community near White Bluffs...