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...Some Gore-bashers are more concerned about the fact that the vice president's "reinventing government" program had helped Occidental in 1997 become the beneficiary of the largest-ever American privatization of an oilfield, when it purchased 78 percent of the Elk Hills oilfield near Bakersfield, Calif. Gore spokesman Jim Kennedy says the vice president never specifically pushed for the sale of Elk Hills or made any effort to profit from it. But in 1995 Gore had indeed called specifically for the privatization of Elk Hills, which had been the Navy's strategic reserve, arguing it was no longer needed...
...simply handed the deal; its offer - $3.65 billion - was twice as high as that of the nearest of its 22 competitors. The acquisition certainly turned Occidental around, instantly trebling its U.S. oil reserves and helping to almost double its profits last year. Whereas it had been estimated that pumping Elk Hills oil would cost in the region of $4.50 a barrel, it actually gushed through at $1.50 a barrel...
...wear a jacket and a tie to eat beneath the moose and elk mounted on the paneled walls of the Harvard Union. One day at lunch, I chatted with a decent fellow, who later that day in the Yard, did not acknowledge my greeting. People didn't do that in Elizabeth...
...skeptics. "My brother-in-law had to put turbo chargers on his," says Rick Nelson, 40, a businessman. "It sounds like a bomb going off in the middle of the night." So Nelson paid $175 to have a high-flow Gerber shipped from Windsor to his bathroom in Elk Grove, Ill. "Look, I'm not trying to change the world," he says. "I'm just trying to get a toilet that flushes...
...animals in these woods." Over the years he increasingly knew that excessive hunting, beyond what was authorized by the government, was taking a terrible toll. That made him receptive in 1994 when the World Wildlife Fund approached him to lead a fight against illegal hunting of tigers (and the elk, boar and other game that tigers feed on) in the Primorye region in Russia's Far East. "If we can't protect the tiger, the king of the taiga," he says, "we will lose, slowly but surely, the richness of our biodiversity...