Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, which extended $5.5 billion in loans to finance Saddam's military procurement network in the U.S. Critics charge that the Bush Administration, which was eager to support Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, and was even more eager to assure itself access to oil at cheap prices, turned a blind eye to BNL's activities and allowed missile and nuclear technology that helped Iraq's missile and nuclear development to slip out of the country...
...economic plan in February. Clinton undercut his claim that all Americans would sacrifice equally. He granted a steady string of energy-tax exemptions to key lawmakers, special pleaders and important industries. Farmers won exemptions on diesel fuel for tractors. Majority Leader George Mitchell won an exemption for home heating oil, an important commodity in New England. Clinton himself agreed in an April telephone call (from a Congressman at a pay phone in Oklahoma) to change the way the tax would be collected on natural gas, electricity and oil...
...itself "the Document Company." Another office-of-the-future hopeful, Wang Laboratories, recently placed a huge bet on expensive paper-scanning and imaging systems to stamp out paper. Customers balked, Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed for bankruptcy last year. IBM also tried and failed, as did oil giant Exxon, which ended up selling off its office- automation division in 1984 after investing more than $2 billion in it. Microsoft could be next, warns Richard Shaffer, editor of ComputerLetter. "Here's yet another company pursuing the elusive dream of the paperless office," he says. "It might also...
...spite of the odds against them, Clinton's team is oddly sanguine about the coming Senate fight, set to begin on June 7 when the Finance Committee takes up the House-passed bill. The chief obstacle is Boren, from oil-rich Oklahoma, who opposes the energy tax and is the pivotal vote on the panel. Administration officials believe they may still pick off Boren, but Democrats on Capitol Hill are already talking darkly of retribution if he doesn't fall into line. One likely target: the Senator, regarded as pompous and self- important even by Senate standards, helped create...
...economics. Her thesis adviser was Jeffrey Sachs, who went on to advise countries around the world on how to switch from controlled to free-market economies. "She had a certain extra dimension, a real analytical mind," he observes. "Her thesis concerned Japan's trade performance after each shock in oil prices during the '70s and '80s, and how the country paid for fuel by increasing exports. She devised computer work that was sophisticated, especially for an undergraduate...