Word: petroleum
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...generation." In fact, the law inflicts its punishment on America's allies, doing virtually nothing to prevent states from supporting terrorists but imposing sanctions against companies in Turkey as well as Italy, France, Germany or any other nation that makes a major investment in the Iranian or Libyan petroleum business...
...looked unpalatable when Republican Senator Alfonse d'Amato proposed it last year. The bill languished until the bomb attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and the suspicious explosion of TWA Flight 800 last month. After that a version affecting only new investment of more than $40 million in petroleum development sailed through Congress unopposed. Senator Orrin Hatch reflects the mood of many Republicans when he says, "I don't find it acceptable that our key allies don't agree with us about dealing with terrorism. As long as our allies invest in terrorist states, that...
...AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE May replace the Tobacco Institute as the most unpopular industry group...
...winter in the U.S. caused refiners to devote more of their capacity to meeting the greater demand for heating fuel. This, in turn, gave them little time to convert their production to meet the blossoming spring and summer demand for gasoline. In the week ending April 19, the American Petroleum Institute reported that gasoline production, hobbled by a series of accidents and closures of refineries, slipped more than 220,000 bbl. a day, to just under 7.3 million bbl. By Memorial Day, production will be about 320,000 bbl. a day lower than at the same time last year...
Cuba's research efforts have been highly pragmatic, aimed at solving real-life problems--of which Cuba has more than its share. Cuban agriculture nearly collapsed following the breakup of the Soviet Union, which for years subsidized Cuba with discount petroleum and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. So scientists at CIGB concentrated on improving the food supply. Among other things, they equipped sugarcane and potatoes with bacterial genes that confer pest resistance and added an extra growth-hormone gene to tilapia, creating a faster-growing variant of that tasty freshwater fish...