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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Wanted: Leaders | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...World Petroleum Congress meeting, June 11-14, Calgary. Groups involved: Ruckus Society, pictured above; Rainforest Action Network

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight the Power, Part II | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: Alas, Poor Trapper Keeper | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

...recent increase in gas prices has exposed the unsettling dependence of the U.S. economy on cheap petroleum. Although many have called for drastic actions to reduce prices, the U.S. should not fight too hard to maintain its low gas prices forever. In the long run, prices that more accurately reflected the social costs of oil would be both an economic and an environmental benefit. For now, however, there is good reason to smooth the transition and to lobby oil-producing nations for increased production...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Rising Oil Prices Bittersweet | 3/21/2000 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Rising Oil Prices Bittersweet | 3/21/2000 | See Source »

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