Word: oilmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almighty buck," says G.C. Richardson, a retired executive of Cities Service. He's nothing but a pirate." Gulf Chairman James Lee accuses Pickens of "hit-and-run tactics." Says Chevron Chairman George Keller: "Pickens does not break any laws doing what he does. But he breaks tradition." Many oilmen are reluctant to discuss Pickens publicly for fear of drawing his attention to their companies. Says one executive: "They want to let sleeping dogs...
...himself from a screenplay by Mario Puzo. But Evans wanted financial as well as creative control of the film. So he snubbed the studios and went elsewhere for money. He made a deal with an Arab arms merchant but returned the dough. He wooed a bunch of Texas oilmen, but that deal fell through. Then, early in 1983, Evans found his angels: a couple of Las Vegas casino moguls...
...oilmen, they mean hefty savings in exploration costs, since fern fossils will indicate at what depths oil is likely to be found. Fern spores, very common in fossil records, are used to date the age of rocks below the earth's surface. Since scientists know that rocks of a certain age-or depth-are more likely to contain oil than others, fern-spore dating can help them decide whether to drill deeper to find...
While ferns are a valuable asset to oilmen, coal producers use them to judge the quality of coal deposits...
...should not mean encouragement for corporate moguls to attack each other in heady games involving billions of dollars' worth of the nation's potential seed money. The anti-trust legislation is already in place to fight back against the clustering of wealth and power in a small group of oilmen and profiteering kamikazes--and it must be used...