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...then, BP had bought up concessions all over the Middle East. But the Iranian nationalization served as an early warning that the region's political instability made dependence on Middle Eastern crude risky. Realizing that its other concessions in the Middle East and North Africa might be nationalized too???in fact several of them have been?BP's management foresightedly stepped up the search for oil in politically friendly (though environmentally frigid) climates, from the North Sea to the Labrador shores and Alaska's North Slope. The company began buying leases in Alaska as early as 1959, and brought...
...Congress in there too???and firmly...
...Expletive deleted] it is a terrible lousy thing?it will remain a crisis among the upper intellectual types, the soft heads, our own, too???Republicans?and the Democrats and the rest. Average people won't think it is much of a crisis unless it affects them [unintelligible]." (March...
Moreover, it generates a zest and determination in the face of suffering, and she has known deep suffering. Her generous, open nature is also a vulnerable one; she has had to learn to steel it with stoicism. "People plan and God laughs," she says. But she laughs too???a billowing, enfolding laugh that is all the more warming because it is born not of frivolity but of grit...
...raises in the works would be allowed to get them during the freeze; that decision was reversed. Most embarrassing to the Administration, the Pentagon announced that an Oct. 1 pay boost of $2.4 billion for the armed forces would go through despite the freeze; John Connally ruled that out too???vehemently...