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Jan. 28, 2006

Buying Time Seems to Be a Thrifty Strategy for Exxon

SAN FRANCISCO - As a journalist in Alaska, I was dispatched to a small fishing village called Cordova the day after a federal jury socked Exxon with $5 billion in punitive damages for the massive Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill in 1989.

        
        
Peter Blumberg

        SAN FRANCISCO - As a journalist in Alaska, I was dispatched to a small fishing village called Cordova the day after a federal jury socked Exxon with $5 billion in punitive damages for the massive Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill in 1989.
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