Word: oilman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board of Economists, criticizes the Kemp-Roth tax cuts. He says "the average American saves 4% of his income and consumes 96%." He doesn't mention that the Government takes 30% of the middle-class income, leaving the remainder to be consumed by the banks for mortgages, the oilman for heat, the utilities, not to mention the grocery store, clothes, doctor or dentist. We have federal tax, state tax, Social Security tax, school tax, town tax, gas tax, sales tax. Wouldn't it be great if the Government could save 4% instead of ending with a budget deficit...
...industry, which has some of the most skilled lobbyists in Washington, is not expecting quick legislative changes during a Reagan Administration. But it is looking forward to better relations with the federal energy bureaucracy. Says one oilman: "We will at least be moving away from the days when the participants in Earth Day became assistant secretaries at the Department of the Interior...
...optimism may be difficult to sustain; even Reagan's strongest supporters had their doubts. "Twenty years of mis management is undone, and good old-fashioned capitalism is back," crowed one Oklahoma oilman last week, only to add in the next breath: "Of course, whether Reagan can translate all this into policy is another question...
While Veneto magistrates delved into it over the years, the scheme was chronicled in some 200 articles that appeared in a small daily, La Tribuna, in the city of Treviso. One disgusted oilman in Rome also claims that "everyone in the industry knew for years." But no national disclosures were made until Giorgio Pisano, a senator in the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) recently reeled off a series of charges on the senate floor...
...satisfy creditors and still keep their multibillion-dollar empire intact, the brothers, heirs to the estate of Texas Oilman H.L. Hunt, have been forced to arrange for a stupefying $1.1 billion line of credit from a consortium of twelve banks headed by Morgan Guaranty and First National Bank in Dallas. In return for the money, the banks have demanded as collateral just about everything of value that the Hunts still own. The resulting listing of mortgaged properties, which runs to more than 350 pages of securities, real estate, corporate holdings, art objects and even personal goods, provides a rare...