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...been the font of their prosperity for decades, but now the wealthy sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf are almost literally swimming in the gooey, black liquid. Since March, three damaged Iranian wells have been spewing some 7,000 bbl. a day of crude into the waters of the gulf, producing an oil slick that is roughly the size of New Jersey and that may rank as the second largest in history.* Much of the menacing sludge rests just below the surface of the gulf's usually crystalline waters, but it is betrayed by a bluish sheen that...
TUCSON, Arts.--Gill Morgan dropped a 22-font birdie put on the second extra hole and defeated Lanny Wadkins and Curtis Strange in a sudden-death playoff Sunday for the title in the Joe Garagiola-Tucson Open, the kickoff event on the PGA Tour...
...Jews with much redemption. Instead, the main events in Jewish history, until the founding of Israel, consisted mostly of disasters: the destruction of the Temple, the Diaspora, the Holocaust, each devastation considerably more terrible and unimaginable than the one it followed. These days Begin cites Genesis as the font of his politics, but his abiding source is the Holocaust, as it is for much of Israel. To the importance of individual death in Judaism, the Holocaust added a national significance. Here was the death of deaths, 6 million gone. Just as the past becomes the present, so did the image...
...overall goals but also the subtle yet compelling little signals, like styles of dress or who gets promoted, that tell employees how to behave. Industrial powerhouses often sum up their cultural values in slogans like General Electric's venerable "Progress is our most important product" or Du Font's "Better things for better living through chemistry." Those mottoes not only help sell light bulbs, refrigerators and synthetic fibers, but tell the employees what their companies stand...
...Font's secret weapon was a device called the "double-barreled two-step." The plan allowed Conoco shareholders to choose whether to receive $98 per share in cash or tax-free units of 1.7 Du Pont shares worth about $80. The offer was attractive to many investors because it had no strings attached and provided them two forms of payment...