Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics are hard, but the basic idea is simple. When coal, oil and other carbon-based fuels are burned, they generate carbon dioxide, which is good at trapping the sun's heat. With accelerating industrial development, energy use is soaring and so is the output of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Most scientists believe this will cause a 2[degrees]F-to-6[degrees]F rise in the next century. If the earth does heat up this fast, the consequences will be dire. Coastal areas will be inundated as the seas expand; shifting weather patterns will cause floods...
...oil companies and automakers don't want restraints on energy demand. And unions and members of Clinton's Treasury Department fear that a tax or some other mechanism for broadly raising energy prices could stifle economic growth and make motorists surly. Already an industry coalition has started a $13 million TV ad campaign predicting a 50[cent] increase in gas prices, which Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has denounced as "worthy of the best efforts of the tobacco industry...
...whose many businesses include an arms-trading company owned by the People's Republic of China. And then, on April 1, 1996, Clinton held a coffee for a group of 15 that included Roger Tamraz, a Lebanese-American businessman, who asked Clinton to support his proposal to build an oil pipeline to the Caspian Sea. At the coffee, Clinton asked his longtime aide Mack McLarty to follow up with officials at the Energy Department. By the time of the coffee, Tamraz had donated $195,000 to the Democrats in pursuit of his goal; before he was done, he would give...
...company has a direct-purchase program. But in this era of increasing shareholder power, whenever an industry bellwether makes the move, others tend to fall into line. US West was the first among telecom companies, in 1994; eight others have direct purchase now. Texaco got the ball rolling in oil five years earlier; now you can own Chevron and Mobil that way. Disney's move to reinstate direct purchase most likely will have influence outside its industry as well. CEOs of all stripes will probably conclude that it must have good reason--beyond the p.r. pop--for the flip-flop...
...Harvard affiliates, two made their wealth in the software industry, seven in finance, nine in media entertainment, three in manufacturing five in investments, two in apparel, two in service, one in oil and gas and one in insurance...