Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottle. Derivatives have changed the rules of the game forever. Average investors who are now pouring money into mutual funds and stocks will soon have access to hundreds of other investment options. Think of the world as a landscape of opportunity--everything from distressed Japanese real estate to Russian oil futures--marketed and packaged by giant banks like BankAmerica or by fund companies like Fidelity Investments and the Vanguard Group. "This is like the automobile's coming," says Sanford. "We'd always had transportation--people walked, eventually they rode donkeys--but the automobile was a break from everything that came...
...Which means that Iraq could be about to play games once more with the U.N. Official Iraqi newspapers are making dark threats of sanctions-busting, while foreign minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf told the New York Times Sunday that "trade has already started." Whether that means Iraq is selling oil illegally, risking another Gulf conflict, al-Sahaf wouldn't say. But bluster or otherwise, the timing of his statement was no accident. The Security Council can consider itself duly warned...
...corporation is a diversified holding company, meaning it has a wide variety of different types of investments. White River owns 36 percent of CCC Information Services Group, Inc., holds stock in Cross Timbers Oil Company and has other small holdings. Its stocks value about $90 million...
...level, these mergers just feel right. The nation seems to take great pride in having the world's largest software company (Microsoft), largest computer company (IBM), largest car company (GM), largest oil company (Exxon) and so on. With these mergers, America could well have the world's largest financial institution again. And that's as it should...
...dire need of foreign currency, the junta has sold off Burma's timber, oil and gas to multinational corporations, has turned a blind eye to the flourishing opium trade and has gone begging to multinational banks and international donors. The foreign reserves it gains allow the regime to buy weapons and maintain a brutal control exercised in the 1998 massacres of demonstrators and students. The military establishment has maintained its power over much of the country despite rebellion by oppressed ethnic minorities and the democratic election which the military lost...