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...range from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to Illinois Democrat Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. They argue that a gas-tax boost -- the proposals span from about 7 cents per gal. to 50 cents -- would be simple to administer and would bring a gusher of new revenues. As fringe benefits, the tax would help the environment and the U.S. trade position...
...even as he bathed in a gusher of success sweeter than any he enjoyed 30 years ago in the oil business, George Herbert Walker Bush showed some of the symptoms of doubt and caution that festoon his political record. On primary night and the morning after, he avoided the ritual TV interviews. No sense in risking a gaffe, his advisers reasoned. In the privacy of his Houstonian Hotel suite, Bush impressed one aide, Peter Teeley, as oddly subdued. Bush seemed burdened with the realization that the nomination was at hand, that a new and even more critical phase was imminent...
Candidates, knowing that senior citizens flock to the polls with a vengeance, have responded with a gusher of saccharine rhetoric. "If we can get a man to the moon, we ought to be able to get dentures to people who built our society," went a sample line from Democrat Paul Simon at AARP's Iowa debate. The 1,000 gray-haired activists in attendance applauded noisily. On . the way out, Wally Wakefield, a retired salesman from West Des Moines, couldn't help gloating. "They came because of us," he said. "We're powerful...
Texaco grew from one great gusher. In 1901 Joseph Cullinan, a former Standard Oil employee, found black gold on Spindletop Hill, near Beaumont, Texas. The next year he formed the Texas Co., and by 1928 it was operating in all 48 states. Texaco ventured overseas in 1936, when it teamed up with Standard Oil of California to market Middle Eastern oil. It also bought an interest in California Arabian Standard Oil, which held a major concession in Saudi Arabia. That company later became Aramco, a consortium that joined Saudi Arabia and American producers...
...Lamar Hunt cannot escape the striking symbolism of their company's bankruptcy filing. Here was the clan that embodied all that was bold, brash and rich about the American oil patch. Yet today, like many a lone Texas wildcatter, the Hunt brothers are hurting -- and not even the hugest gusher can provide a cure...