Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Korea attacked. It is diplomatic code for an interest a country will go to war over. When President Jimmy Carter declared in 1980 that the Persian Gulf was a "vital interest," he was correctly understood to mean the U.S. would go to war to maintain its access to gulf oil...
...Marines without a very good reason. The public demanded a pullout from Somalia but said nothing about abandoning overflights in Iraq when two U.S. helicopters were mistakenly shot down in April 1994 and 15 Americans were killed. The difference between the two cases is obvious. The public understands that oil is a strategic interest, and Saddam Hussein--a tyrant hoping to build nuclear weapons--represents a threat to U.S. security. On that basis Americans can make a judgment and a choice...
...silver-gray metal spread all over the place. Aging buildings are tainted by plutonium spills from leaking pipes, valves and containers, and from compartments known as "infinity rooms" because their level of radioactivity is so high. Barrels of radioactive waste are stacked 15 ft. high. Fields contaminated with radioactive oil are covered by only a layer of asphalt. Now that suburbs have crept within three miles of the plant's perimeter, the plutonium that has periodically leaked into the air and nearby streams poses new dangers...
Some council members said they were concerned that to divest from Nigeria would send the wrong message to Shell Oil...
...Shell did not clean up after many oil spills," Abiola said...