Word: oilman
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...foyer. When the center, located at Texas A&M University, was being erected, money flowed in from as far away as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, places that had good reason to thank the 40th president of the United States. But for one donor of at least $100,000 - Texas oilman Edwin L. Cox, Sr. - gratitude may have been closer to home...
...There was a very loud noise and the entire submarine shuddered." JOHN HALL, civilian oilman who pulled the levers to start the rapid surfacing maneuver on the U.S.S. Greeneville, which led to the boat's collision with a Japanese fishing trawler...
...Evans, a longtime Bush friend and fund-raiser whose previous life as an oilman didn't present much opportunity for him to make political enemies, looks primed to sail through his Senate confirmation hearings, which began Thursday. But congressional observers predict that other, less innocuous nominees could be in for a very rough ride, including ex-Missouri senator John Ashcroft, who is nominated for attorney general, and former Colorado attorney general Gale Norton, who has been named to head the Department of the Interior...
...also a good time to be an old-economy guy. As the newfangled tech folk wallow in the remnants of their self-inflated bubble, Bush the oilman is primed to talk about old-fashioned Republican virtues like reduced government regulation, cheaper energy, smaller government and increased privatization - and, of course, a $1.3 trillion tax cut. It's all aimed at increasing the flow of capital and putting more spending money in American wallets...
...when they married in 1994, a billionaire Houston oilman who traveled by wheelchair. She was 26 and took her clothes off for a living...