Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first the Israelis maintained that the fire was accidental. A welding torch was found beneath the roof, where work men had been repairing old timbers treated with inflammable linseed oil. Some angry Israelis suggested that, just as the Nazis had burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on the Communists, Al-Fatah terrorists had set fire to the shrine so that the Israelis could be blamed and emotions aroused throughout the Arab world...
...Each year, more than a million visitors peer from trails and catwalks at the antics of exotic herons, bitterns and roseate spoonbills. They are mystified by the anhinga, a prehistoric bird that must spread and dry its wings after diving for fish, or drown from lack of natural-body-oil protection. On rare occasions, they glimpse the manatee-a huge sea cow that sailors once imagined to be a mermaid...
Crippling Blow. As if dehydration were not enough, the park ecosystem is now threatened by plans for an airport six miles from its northern border. Conservationists fear the effects of jet noise, exhaust fallout, fuel and oil spills. They also shudder at the prospect of helter-skelter development around the airport resulting in pollution from sewage, insecticides and fertilizer runoff...
...While employed as an office manager for a Colorado company that services oil wells, James Stryker embezzled more than $280,000 from the firm. His wife knew nothing about the crime until Stryker committed suicide ten days after the company accused him of the theft. Even so, the U.S. Tax Court has just ordered Mrs. Stryker, who has since remarried, to pay more than $80,000 in back taxes on the embezzled funds. Stryker had not reported any of the income on the couple's joint tax returns. But under the Internal Revenue Code, declared the court, a woman...
When Mexico bought 66% of the Mexican affiliate of Pan American Sulphur Co. in 1967, Quintana was one of four businessmen invited to share 35% of the investment. Now that Mexico seeks to develop its own oil industry, Quintana is reaching out again. He will provide all the drilling equipment for the venture...