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EXXON SAYS ALASKA BENEFITED FROM SPILL Exxon Corp. said yesterday that the people and industry of Alaska had profited from the 1989 Valdez oil spill, when millions of barrels of oil spewed into Prince William Sound, tarring beaches and killing wildlife. ... "The state of Alaska has been impacted but it's all been good," Exxon's director of Alaskan operations Otto Harrison said at a Houston news conference. ... An Exxon spokesman [later] said that Harrison was referring only to the economic repercussions of the spill. [Believe it or not, the above is a true excerpt from the Boston Globe, Thursday, May 9, 1991]
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