Word: petroleum
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...victory when the Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility votes to demand that the Caterpillar Tractor Company disclose information on its activities in South Africa. Less than a week later, the University votes for the same action against General Electric and votes to have the Phillips Petroleum Company withdraw from Namibia...
...past, managers at state enterprises worked their way up the factory line to an office after a couple decades of dedicated but not necessarily distinguished service. "I have committed 13 years to my company," says Hou Yunfu, 35, an engineer whose ceibs tuition is paid by China National Petroleum Corp.'s Daqing Geophysics Institute. "It's good that they are now willing to support me, even if it's 10 years later than most people get their M.B.A.s...
...World Petroleum Congress meeting, June 11-14, Calgary. Groups involved: Ruckus Society, pictured above; Rainforest Action Network
Fact: no one will be impressed with our technology. We will have corrected faulty eyesight by wearing magnifying lenses made of glass or plastic. We will have traveled by burning a petroleum by-product called gasoline. We will have produced children by having sexual intercourse. Ours, we will be told, was a primitive era. How can we expect to be taken seriously, we will be asked, when our high school physics class did not even teach string theory...
...domestic initiatives, Clinton's proposal to create a heating-oil reserve in the Northeast would be more reasonable than selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for general consumption, although the latter may be necessary at some point if prices continue to increase. Congress should approve Clinton's proposal as well as resist Texas Gov. George W. Bush's hasty proposal to repeal a 4.3-cent-per-gallon gas tax, which would take away valuable highway funds while at the same time passing savings on to oil producers rather than consumers...