Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House has got the message. Al Gore, a best-selling conservationist, two weeks ago denounced Republicans on the Hill for a "jihad against the environment'' that had allowed lobbyists from "the biggest polluters in America'' to rewrite environmental law. And Clinton has threatened to veto any provisions to permit oil drilling in the Arctic refuge...
...whose West is it anyway? Critics of the rebellious Westerners in Congress say they really represent longtime monied interests. Records of the Federal Election Commission show that many of them are heavily financed by campaign money from oil and gas companies, mining and logging interests, developers and growers. A proposed Senate version of the Endangered Species Act, sponsored by Slade Gorton of Washington, was written with the help of timber lobbyists. According to the Western States Center, a campaign-finance research enterprise, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana got more than a fourth of his campaign funding last year from such...
...strong protections for the environment. In a recent TIME/CNN poll, 63% of those questioned opposed any reduction in protection for endangered species. Fifty-nine percent opposed the expansion of logging, mining or ranching on public lands. And 67% were against opening up the Arctic refuge to gas and oil exploration. One of the President's pollsters, Stan Greenberg, is advising Clinton that defense of the environment plays well with many Perot supporters, who are inclined to see any attack on environmental law as one more case of special interests getting their way in Washington...
...mass art form. Democracy would flourish as millions of people logged on to the vast, bubbling, uncensored online debate. I didn't know that much of what goes on online would turn out to be "utter drivel," as disillusioned cyberpioneer Clifford Stoll now concludes in his book Silicon Snake Oil, or "flame wars" of crude and escalating insults, or, of course, cybersex with Beavis and Butt-head...
...resort-studded Pacific coast of Mexico, killing at least 51 people, flattening one big hotel and damaging hundreds of homes. The temblor, which measured 7.5 on the Richter scale, was felt as far as 330 miles away in Mexico City, where the 63-story headquarters of the state oil monopoly swayed sickeningly...