Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sensory bombardment can be fun, especially for high rollers like Lisa Wishnick, a vivacious platinum blond from New York City who recently persuaded her oil-executive husband to celebrate their 13th anniversary with a weekend in Atlantic City. The people who track the betting at Merv Griffin's Resorts Hotel and Casino estimate that the Wishnicks have access to a $50,000 line of credit, so everything but the gambling is complimentary: the 48-minute helicopter ride, the mauve suite, even the caviar. Never mind that just about everyone else in the casino is dressed for mowing the lawn, Wishnick...
...worst times I always thought, If you get through this, it will be much better for the next woman." As it turned out, she was the next woman, and by 1986, when she returned to power, her gender was no longer much of an issue. The collapse of oil prices had left Norway high and dry and deep in debt: Brundtland dazzled both friends and foes with a perilous high-wire act. On one hand she capped wages, devalued the krone and clamped down on consumer credit in an effort to restore Norway's export markets. But at the same...
...bags were filing off ships in Valdez, Alaska, last week and heading toward the phones, Mike's Pizza Palace or the bar at the Pipeline Club. Final paychecks were burning holes in thousands of pockets. The work force that spearheaded Exxon's $1 billion effort to erase the largest oil spill in U.S. history was calling it quits before the winter-storm season descends on Prince William Sound. Six months after the Exxon Valdez ran hard aground on Bligh Reef and dumped 260,000 bbl. of crude oil into one of the most scenic bodies of water in the world...
...fast, Exxon. While workers were filling planes and buses on the way home, Alaska Governor Steve Cowper and state environment commissioner Dennis Kelso called a press conference in Valdez. They named the "dirty dozen" beaches that they charge are still fouled with oil and announced their own modest $21 million winter cleanup program, at least part of which will be paid for by Exxon. The message to the company was clear: You didn't get the job done, and you're leaving too early...
When Delors arrived in Brussels, the Community had experienced more than a decade of drift, along with some unpleasant jolts brought on by two international oil crises. Even though the establishment of the Community in 1958 had resulted in the removal of some tariffs, Delors found that others still persisted and that customs requirements and manufacturing regulations remained rampant. The new E.C. chief quickly realized that the elimination of such impediments could not be accomplished within one four-year term of office, so he chose the end of the following term, 1992, as the deadline. At the time, Delors...