S&P Raises Transocean Offshore Ratings
Standard & Poor's raised its ratings for Transocean Offshore Inc., renamed Transocean Sedco Forex Inc. (See chart page 2, related story page 8) At the same time…
Mutiny Pardoned
President Bill Clinton recently granted a pardon clearing the name of Freddie Meeks, an 80-year-old black man convicted of mutiny in a 1944 wartime incident with racial overtones.
Second 'Chunnel' Not Likely
A motorway under the sea between Britain and France was mooted last week in a study issued by Eurotunnel Plc on a second cross-channel link. Almost 200 years after…
Millennium Bug Proves More Myth Than Menace
The Y2K bug remained to be less than a threat last Tuesday as London rejoined the working world after the New Year break, but more traditional worries about interest rates quickly deflated markets.
French Beach Oil Slick Toll Rises
A new wave of heavy fuel oil from the sunken tanker Erika washed onto France's storm-battered western coast last week, this time hitting the shores of Ile de Re…
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