Word: maracaibo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limit its vulnerability. In 1973 Exxon rolled up worldwide sales of $28.5 billion -about the same as the NATO defense budget. Rigs working for Exxon or companies that it partly owns bring up oil from the Arctic tundra, the Arabian deserts, the Gulf of Mexico and Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. Gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil are distilled from the crude at refineries in Benicia, Calif., Rotterdam, Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Pumps blazoning the names Exxon or Esso (still widely used outside the U.S.) dispense gasoline in Canadian fishing villages, Zaire jungle outposts and along war-torn...