Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which have been discarded. The committee found that Wright's heavy-handed intervention with federal officials on behalf of failing Texas savings and loan associations was no more than what other Texas Congressmen were doing. His intercession with Government officials and Egypt's Anwar Sadat to help a Texas oil-and-gas company was also found to be all in a day's work for the average member...
Among the world's untamed and unexplored regions, there is none richer than the Amazon Basin. For decades, Brazilian governments have sought to protect from foreign exploitation the vast rain forest's gold and minerals, oil and gas, hardwoods and cattle ranges. The great push to settle and industrialize the Amazon has been propelled in part by the government's determination to prevent neighboring countries and multinational corporations from making off with the riches that Brazilians regard as their national patrimony. Despite the precautions, however, the dreaded foreign invasion has finally come. Its name: environmentalism...
...Alaska's treasures -- and a major center of the dispute over oil exploration -- is a park the size of eight Yellowstones. Within this vast preserve, called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, lies a 1.5 million-acre section of the coastal plain that the oil industry insists has the greatest potential of any land in the U.S. Only two native villages abut this vast park: Arctic Village, on the southern border in the foothills of the Brooks Range, which is home to 100 Gwich'in members of the Athapaskan Indian group; and Kaktovik, on Barter Island, far to the north...
...implications of cold fusion are enormous. The supply of deuterium is virtually limitless. Unlike ordinary fission reactors, a cold-fusion plant would produce very little radiation and no radioactive waste, and it wouldn't produce the chemical pollutants and greenhouse gasses created by burning coal and oil...
...real mother lode of the global palladium supply is South Africa. Those who find America's marriage of convenience with the oil-producing gulf states troubling should shudder at the prospect of cozy relations with the current South African regime...