Word: paso
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief asset of Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. is a steel artery about two feet in diameter that winds through six Western states bringing natural gas to eleven million consumers. El Paso Natural Gas Co., which has the nation's largest reserves of that fuel, acquired Pacific Northwest and its strategic pipeline in 1957, and El Paso executives have been fighting in court ever since to hang on to their purchase. Last week they reached the end of the line: the Supreme Court ordered El Paso to get rid of Pacific Northwest...
...byzantine complexity. In the past 16 years, the case has come before the Supreme Court no fewer than eight times. Some 39 companies, Government agencies and private citizens have joined the case over the years. At one point, a bill was introduced in Congress to exempt the El Paso-Pacific Northwest merger from the antitrust laws, but it died in committee. El Paso paid close to $16 million to lawyers and public relations men during its losing fight...
Manhattan won the title by a six-point lead that left Kent State, the University of Texas at EI Paso and Kansas in a tie for second...
Employees of the Farah Pant Company have been on strike in El Paso, Texas, since May. Over 80 per cent of them are Mexican-Americans, Carlos Alcala, a first year law student and a spokesman for the Movimento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan (MECDA), said yesterday...
Development of gas from the field around Yakutsk would require Occidental and a partner, El Paso Natural Gas, to supply technological help and money to build pipelines and tankers to carry liquefied natural gas to the U.S.; Occidental would take payment in gas, which it would sell in America. Hammer himself concedes that at least $3 billion in American money will be needed, but insists that Washington will guarantee the necessary loans. His logic: "We in the U.S. need the gas, or else we just face having more brownouts." But within the Nixon Administration, officials are debating whether...