Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVER SINCE THE LOADED SUPERTANKER UNDER HIS command foundered on Bligh Reef in April 1989 and unleashed an 11 million-gal. spill of Alaskan crude oil into Prince William Sound, Skipper Joseph Hazelwood has been a marked man. Last week, when the Maritime College of the State University of New York announced that it had hired Hazelwood to help teach cadets how to stand watch, environmental groups were quick to remonstrate. "This is truly amazing," said the Sierra Club...
...territory, to be called Nunavut, will become a national home for the Eskimo -- or Inuit -- of the country's eastern Arctic. It will encompass a huge area of mainland and islands stretching from Manitoba almost to the North Pole that is thought to be rich in oil and minerals...
...into one of his carefully calculated rants, poised somewhere between comedy and a call to arms. Bad news, he insists, is what he most likes to watch on TV; it means the system is breaking down. "I want to see a paint factory blowing up.I want to see an oil refinery explode. I want to see a tornado hit a church on Sunday. I want to know there's some guy running through the K Mart with an automatic weapon firing at the clerks. I want to see thousands of people in the street killing policemen...
Some MIT professors in the 1950s started studying energy efficient home designs, sharing their research with anyone who would listen. The federal government didn't do much listening until the oil crisis in the 70s, and then started listening very carefully. The Carter Administration offered now-notorious tax breaks for new homes fitted with solar devices...
...good deal did get accomplished and a real industry started to form, then the Reagan Administration came in and swept away all of the tax incentives for alternative energy sources. That just killed the movement. Of course, they kept all the tax breaks for the oil and coal industries, they even increased them...