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City officials and Shanker insisted that he had received only written assurances that Big Mac would never again seek to tap the teachers' retirement fund. Shanker claimed that he was acting only to save the city and in the face of official actions that "have been extremely destructive to our school system and to collective bargaining." He added: "The situation still stinks...
...person annually for the 13,000 expected users, which seems a bargain to many of the people who will pay for the complex--the alumni--many of whom often have to pay more than $500 for club facilities in a big city. The Unversity is also being careful to tap only those donors specifically interested in sports, who would not otherwise give to academic fund drives...
...longer run, the country's economic prospects are brighter. International arms of Texaco oil and Kennecott mining, among others, have shown interest in developing the country's rich but largely unexploited natural resources (oil, gas, zinc, gold, silver). Somare hopes to tap other sources in Australia, Japan, Britain, West Germany and the U.S. for additional development capital. Although they now have their independence, the people of Papua New Guinea are not likely to be liberated of their liking for that Western cargo...
Norway's policy has been to tap its oil wealth slowly, so as not to bring in gushers of money all at once and disrupt the economy. Unlike Britain, though, Norway has firmly made up its mind as to what role the government should play. Through Statoil, the state oil company, Norway controls most of its oil industry. It buys up to 75% interests in production ventures; Statoil and Mobil along with other oil companies are partners in Statfjord, Norway's biggest oilfield yet (3 billion bbl. in reserves). Headed by Arve Johnsen, a 41-year-old economist...
...reporter states his desperation calmly when he interrupts the narrative to speculate on the validity of accounts produced by civil servants who tap phone calls. Even this form of reporting, which one would have hoped was as regular and reliable as the mechanism of a tape recorder, is utterly flawed...