Word: oils
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Elected tribal Chairman in 1970, MacDonald set out to improve the Navajos' economy by demanding better prices for the tribe's oil, coal and natural-gas reserves. Along the way, say his critics, the Chairman spent tribal funds profusely. He reportedly hired a public relations firm for $1.5 million. He had his office in Window Rock, Ariz., remodeled for $600,000, of which $4,800 alone went to pay for carved office doors. He chartered a jet for more than $18,000 to take him and his family to the 1988 Orange Bowl...
...percent increase in bus fares that sparked the protests is part of a reform package announced last week by the month-old government of President Carlos Andres Perez that aims to bring the oil-based economy out of recession...
...Weak oil prices have struck a serious blow to the economy of this country that has for decades been one of South America's most stable democracies...
...built a headquarters for a foreign-owned petroleum group. For nearly a decade he moved around the Middle East and Europe, finally settling in London with his wife and three children. Along the way, he picked up a multimillion-dollar fee as a broker in a Saudi crude-oil deal. That was just the beginning of his good fortune...
...buffeting Baker's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, a former high-ranking diplomat who most recently was the $200,000-a-year president of Kissinger Associates. The firm's global list of clients (including Britain's Midland Bank, South Korea's vast Daewoo Group and Hunt Oil projects in the Middle East) is so extensive that he may have to cross off entire continents to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Eagleburger, who would be in charge when Baker is out of the country, proposes to solve the problem by recusing himself from any decision...