Halliburton's Escape Plan
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6813175/site/newsweek/
The world's largest oilfield services company pays $5 billion to
settle asbestos problems--nearly as much as it paid in 1998 to buy
Dresser Industries, from which it inherited many of the liabilities
By Allan Sloan
Updated: 1:31 p.m. ET Jan. 11, 2005
Jan. 11 - It's time for yet another Halliburton story - but not the
one you may be expecting. This isn't about the endlessly scrutinized
Iraq contracting business of the big energy services company that *****
Cheney ran before he became vice president. And it's not about
Halliburton's profit-boosting accounting change during Cheney's regime,
or the scandals and problems currently affecting some of the firm's
far-flung projects.
Halliburton
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Cheney
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Allan Sloan
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