Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opponents charge that the pollution tax will simply raise prices on home heating oil for consumers without guaranteeing that the tax money is used to clean up waste sites...
...reaffirmed the pro-Baghdad approach, signing a directive in October 1989 calling for closer ties to Saddam and the continued supply of guaranteed credits to buy U.S. grain ($500 million worth were extended the next month) and technology. His rationale: Iraq had the region's largest army, second largest oil reserves, ties to Moscow that would be nice to weaken and big ambitions to be a local power. The U.S. wanted some influence -- and some export sales...
...persistent credit crunch has its roots in the go-go lending years of the 1980s, when banks and savings and loan associations issued an extravaganza of careless loans to real-estate sharks and corporate raiders, oil drillers and developing countries. "All you had to do to get a loan in the 1980s was have a pulse," says Jon Goodman, vice chairman of California United Bank. The resulting avalanche of bad loans forced the U.S. to allocate nearly $100 billion to bail out the S&Ls and set aside a $70 billion credit line for cleaning up the banks. To prevent...
Meyer said that the company stands to earn backmuch of the loss in commodities as oil and gasprices rebound over the next several months. Hesaid that the benchmark index forcommodities--calculated using spot prices--ismisleading, since the valuations are determinedusing average prices over a 12 month period...
Opponents charge that the pollution tax will simply raise prices on home heating oil for consumers without guaranteeing that the tax money is used to clean up waste sites...