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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-08 03:09 UPDATE 1-Obama forcefully defends handling of BP’s spill
WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) – In his angriest words yet after being widely criticized for his response to the Gulf oil spill, U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said he was talking to experts because he wants to know “whose ass to kick.” “I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answer so I …
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Obama defends his team’s handling of gulf oil spill
The president insists his administration is ‘in charge’ of the leak. ‘BP is operating at our direction,’ he says at a briefing, where he announced new restrictions on deep-water drilling. President Obama insisted Thursday that his administration was “in charge” of the effort to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, batting away suggestions that the federal response has been lackluster and …
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Poll: 70% Say BP Handling Oil Spill Badly
Obama Also Gets Negative Ratings on Management of Massive Environmental Disaster
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BP oil disaster: banks should learn a thing or two in handling a crisis
The oil industry’s handling of disasters holds useful lessons for banks, argues Jeremy Warner.

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