Word: mobilized
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...getting the task force's blessing for incentives to build 38,000 miles of new pipeline. Nuclear-industry officials gave $150,000 while landing support for a waste-burial site--Bush later chose Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Former Representative Bill Paxon and another lawyer whose firm works for Exxon Mobil raised at least $100,000 apiece as the oil giant was persuading the panel to back a review of trade sanctions...
...Though Bush would later brand Iran part of the "axis of evil," the task force proposed factoring in U.S. energy needs when reviewing sanctions against Iran and Libya. In addition to Exxon Mobil, two other oil giants, Conoco and Phillips Petroleum-each a $25,000 gala donor-have long opposed the sanctions, which deprive them of markets. Conoco president Archie Dunham, an old Cheney pal, visited him March 21 to press the case. Big Oil saw the task force's proposal as a victory, though hopes of lifting sanctions were dashed last summer. Congress voted to renew them...
...getting the task force's blessing for incentives to build 38,000 miles of new pipeline. Nuclear-industry officials gave $150,000 while landing support for a waste-burial site-Bush later chose Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Former Representative Bill Paxon and another lawyer whose firm works for Exxon Mobil raised at least $100,000 apiece as the oil giant was persuading the panel to back a review of trade sanctions...
...Here's what Washington should do for Big Steel. Let them merge to their heart's content - if it was OK for economy-of-scale-seekers Exxon and Mobil and Compaq and Hewlett Packard, the steel industry deserves the same shot. Heck, if it'll get their fast-track votes, give 'em $10 billion or so for the pensions - there's already 226 votes in the House - and let the retirees have their money. None of this is their fault...
DIED. WARREN LERUTH, 72, chef who created salad dressings, including Green Goddess, for Seven Seas, and French-style recipes, like oyster-artichoke soup, that became New Orleans staples; in New Orleans. His restaurant, LeRuth's, was the only one in that city to win a five-star Mobil rating five years...