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For their dialogue on matters oil, thanks to David Hobbs, James Burkhard, Susan Ruth, James Placke, and Ruchir Kadakia, who also helped me with the graphics.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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It took Placke several weeks to work out what he wanted to say to Washington.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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It also represented, in the words of James Placke, the American petroleum attaché in Libya, a “truce” between the majors and the independents.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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One who watched with a growing sense of foreboding was James Placke, an American diplomat who had been an economic officer at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad a decade earlier, when OPEC was formed, and was now the petroleum officer in the U.S. embassy in Tripoli.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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Placke had been reporting on a daily basis all through the period as the Libyans had battled with Occidental, Esso, Shell, and the other companies, but now there was time to stand back.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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It took Placke several weeks to work out what he wanted to say to Washington.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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This morning, the New York Times carries a lengthy story about haunted houses in Columbia County, NY: Then a guest, Bill Placke, a banker from Summit, N.J., was dozing off in the guest bedroom, lying next to his sleeping wife, he said, when a smiling skeletal apparition robed in a white gown and ruffled collar appeared at the foot of his bed.
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This morning, the New York Times carries a lengthy story about haunted houses in Columbia County, NY: Then a guest, Bill Placke, a banker from Summit, N.J., was dozing off in the guest bedroom, lying next to his sleeping wife, he said, when a smiling skeletal apparition robed in a white gown and ruffled collar appeared at the foot of his bed.
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This morning, the New York Times carries a lengthy story about haunted houses in Columbia County, NY: Then a guest, Bill Placke, a banker from Summit, N.J., was dozing off in the guest bedroom, lying next to his sleeping wife, he said, when a smiling skeletal apparition robed in a white gown and ruffled collar appeared at the foot of his bed.
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Placke emphasized that he was not pleading for maintaining the status quo.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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