In the 1980s, it was Japan buying up Rockefeller Center and U.S. real estate.

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In this context, Senator Rockefeller asked the U.S. General Accountability Office to assess the state of the coal industry given the negative externalities that it now faces: a tougher EPA in combination with cheap natural gas prices and declining coal reserves that are harder to dig out in the Appalachian region.

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He was a trustee to the Rockefeller Foundation, a special adviser to U.N.

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To get the number, divide federal outlays by the revenues of the largest U.S. corporation, a status held at various times since 1900 by U.S. Steel, Rockefeller's oil business (now ExxonMobil et al.) and GM.

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Thirteen of the 16 billionaires who have hit age 90 built their fortunes themselves--the three exceptions being U.S. oil-family scion David Rockefeller, Danish shipping-company executive Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller and Saudi banker Saleh Al Rajhi.

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Rockefeller recently signed a letter with GOP Vice Chairman Kit Bond declaring that U.S. adherence to the Treaty would have no negative implications for U.S. intelligence.

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In hearings right after the Allegra incident, Rockefeller was very curious as to why cruise lines can use the resources of forty U.S. agencies without paying U.S. taxes.

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Consumers will have the chance to be among the first in the world to purchase the Wii U console when the clock strikes midnight on Nov. 18 at Nintendo World in New York's Rockefeller Plaza.

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