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"Our coaches made an effort to have us train a lot on hills in the last couple of weeks," Baker said.
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...
Moreover, Occidental wasn't 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...
Those prone to smelling rodents in the Clinton White House, such as The Nation's left-wing columnist Alexander Cockburn, point out that the presale assessment of the Elk Hills land was done not by the Department of Energy, as would usually be the case, but by a private firm...
Again, nothing conclusive there. The New York Times points out that the sale was questioned by environmentally oriented government departments such as the EPA and the Fish and Wildlife Service, but that the DOE went ahead under pressure to meet a congressional deadline for the sale. To be sure, it...