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487 “whatever AIG is doing”: Ibid.
488 “intentionally promotes Shariah”: Ibid.
489 “To help achieve”: Ibid.
490 “is to review”: Ibid.
491 Under the program: Ibid.
14. HOW BILL CLINTON GOOFED…COSTING YOU $60 BILLION
492 It’s estimated that their blunder: Edmund L. Andrews, “Oil Company Revives Suit on Avoidance of Royalties,” New York Times, March 3, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/business/03royalties.html?n=Top/News/Business/Companies/Anadarko%20Petroleum%20Corp.
493 which usually run between: Ibid.
494 So, in 1996: Ibid.
495 Deepwater oil production: Marc Humphries, “Royalty Relief for U.S. Deepwater Oil and Gas Leases,” September 18, 2008, http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/110359.pdf.
496 In the next two years: H. Josef Hebert, “House Votes to Recoup Lease Royalties,” USA Today, July 27, 2007, www.usatoday.com/news/topstories/2007-07-27-1953281366_x.htm.
497 By 2000, the Interior Department: Ibid.
498 By 2006: Humphries, “Royalty Relief for U.S. Deepwater Oil and Gas Leases.”
499 By the time all the oil: Ibid.
500 Patricia Minaldi: Andrews, “Oil Company Revives Suit on Avoidance of Royalties.”
501 Sustaining Minaldi’s ruling: Nick Snow, “Appeals Court Backs Earlier Kerr-McGee Deepwater Ruling,” Oil and Gas Journal, January 14, 2008, www.ogj.com/display_article/350304/7/ONART/none/GenIn/1/Appeals-court-backs-earlier-Kerr-McGee-deepwater-ruling/.
502 The intent of Congress: Ibid.
503 “If the court’s interpretation”: Ibid.
504 the Government Accountability Office: Andrews, “Oil Company Revives Suit on Avoidance of Royalties.”
505 At a time when: Tom Doggett, “Lawmaker Urges US Govt to Fight Oil Royalty Ruling,” Reuters.com, November 1, 2007, www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN0145493420071101.
506 “will result in the oil”: Ibid.
507 In July 2007: Humphries, “Royalty Relief for U.S. Deepwater Oil and Gas Leases.”
15. TARMAC HOSTAGES: HOW AIRLINES IMPRISON YOU ON THE RUNWAY
508 “food, water, electricity”: Marilyn Adams, “Airlines Hope to Block Flier Bill of Rights,” USA Today, December 10, 2007, www.usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2007-12-10-stranding-law_N.htm.
509 In the first ten: Ibid.
510 During the same: “Passenger Rights,” Washington Post, January 12, 2008, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR2008011103506.html.
511 Passengers have a right: Kate Hanni, “Canada Got Their Airline Passengers Bill of Rights Why Can’t We Have Ours!,” FlyersRights.org, September 15, 2008, www.strandedpassengers.blogspot.com.
512 Guaranteed customer notification: “Bill of Rights,” JetBlue.com, www.jetblue.com/p/about/ourcompany/promise/Bill_Of_Rights.pdf.
513 “the air and toilets”: Tom Zeller Jr., “Held Hostage on the Tarmac: Time for a Passenger Bill of Rights?,” New York Times, February 16, 2007, http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/held-hostage-on-the-tarmac-time-for-a-passenger-bill-of-rights/.
514 After hours of sitting: Scott McCartney, “Runway-Bound: A Holiday Flight Becomes Ugly,” Wall Street Journal, January 6, 2007, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116804368966768690.html.
515 “after eight hours”: Ibid.
516 “according to airline officials”: Ibid.
517 This “pivotal decision”: Ibid.
518 “allowed about 20”: Ibid.
519 “conditions in the”: Ibid.
520 The chairman of the House Committee: Mike Collins, “Airlines Get 500 Million in Your Tax Dollars and Passengers Get Nothing,” StrandedPassengers.blogspot.com, September 22, 2008, www.strandedpassengers.blogspot.com/.
521 While the task force: “DOT Tarmac Delay Task Force Declines to Set Time Limits,” November 14, 2008, www.atwonline.com/news/story.html?storyID=14709.
522 The doctrine of: Steve Surjaputra, “Proposed Rule Would Allow Passengers to Sue over Tarmac Delays,” Tripso.com, December 4, 2008, www.tripso.com/today/proposed-rule-would-allow-passengers-to-sue-over-tarmac-delays/.
523 The airlines have ratcheted: Center for Responsive Politics, www.opensecret.org/industries/indus.php?ind=T110.