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...says a senior Western oil executive, "we'd sign with the Iranians. In this part of the world, they are by far the most trustworthy partners for a pipeline deal. Terrorism? Who's going to blow up their own pipeline?" But the U.S. option, the east-west line, gathered support from some regional leaders--Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev, for example--who thought it would be more secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rush For Caspian Oil | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...preferred option, a north-south pipeline through Iran to the gulf. By these new estimates, the Iran link would cost about $4 billion and would not be operational until 2004. This meant the line through Iran would cost as much and take as long to build as the east-west system through Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rush For Caspian Oil | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...know that El Nino is caused by a decrease in the trade winds that blow east-west across the Pacific from Peru to Indonesia. To explain El Nino by global warming, you have to show that global warming caused these trade winds to cease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL NINO AND US: HELL, HIGH WATER AND HYPE | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson came back firing. Within two minutes, Linden completed two long passes to senior receiver Colby Skelton. The second was taken 51 yards into the endzone, although Skelton's three east-west direction changes to fake the Bison safeties probably covered closer to 70 yards...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bucknell Halts Harvard's Streak | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...Europe last week. While colossal headaches were awaiting him at home, over there it was pure pomp and celebration. On Tuesday at a signing ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, he portrayed the new agreement between Russia and NATO as the gateway to a golden era of East-West cooperation. In the Hague the next day, he and the assembled leaders of Europe marked the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan--the keystone of it all--with brass bands, dinners and speeches. The next 50 years, said Clinton, should produce "a Europe that is democratic, at peace and undivided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITY AND DIVISION | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

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