Word: oiled
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Vallier, equal parts meticulous and affable, says he's trying to create a "corporate" sensibility for the department. He formed his sense of what is properly corporate and professional during stints in the employee relations department at Shell Oil and as the vice president for human resources for a large health care provider...
...luck and the U.N. embargo hold, the pain in Iraq will continue, as will the internal pressure on Saddam. The country is crippled. Such basic goods as medicine and farm supplies cannot come in, and an annual $15 billion worth of oil cannot go out. Malnutrition is rampant; last month the government cut food rations in half. "The people of Iraq are being destroyed by the sanctions," says an Iraqi now living in the U.S. "The social fabric is being torn apart. Iraq has been wounded for four years, and nobody cares...
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev renewed efforts to ease sanctions against Iraq, taking his plea to the United Nations. Kozyrev argued that the U.N., despite U.S. objections, should lift an oil embargo on Iraq by May in exchange for Saddam Hussein's recognition of Kuwaiti sovereignty. (He also said Russia had received advance information on last week's desert maneuvers and reports that "Iraq was not planning to attack Kuwait.") The U.S. response: U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright said "Iraq must not be led to choose in an a la carte way" among U.N. conditions for lifting sanctions...
Another American, George A. Olah of the University of Southern California, snagged the Nobel Prize in chemistry for revolutionizing the study of hydrocarbons, the major components of oil and natural...
...years, there have been at least 85 cancer-causing pesticides in processed foods on supermarket shelves -- such as raisins, cooking oil, tomato paste and flour -- but the federal government is only now getting serious about a crackdown. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today agreed to review and possibly ban 36 pesticides within two years, then set its sights on 49 more as part of an out-of-court settlement with consumer advocates, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The losers in the deal, the American Crop Protection Association, accused the NRDC of trying to ''create a national food scare...