John Olver
John Olver
John Walter Olveris an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district from 1991 to 2013. Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, Olver graduated from college at the age of 18 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and later taught chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for eight years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 September 1936
CountryUnited States of America
Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.
Primitive peoples used biomass, wood, and charcoal for their energy source for heat, running pottery kilns, and early metal processing.
It stressed me out just thinking about how I would have felt if Jon Zion had left while I was there. I don't miss those days and those phone calls.
We are all aware of the potential for Saturday. But, really, we're focusing on preparing for Wayne State and the challenges they present, and not looking beyond that club.
They force you to make decisions a lot quicker than we are accustomed to and the decisions we made were not good ones early. We played almost the entire first period in our zone. Defensively we played fairly well but we were in our zone the whole period.
We must hold the Sudanese government accountable for the attacks they have supported on their own citizens.
Our gasoline prices are hovering at $3 a gallon, and that causes a serious problem for a lot of our commerce and a lot of our families.
Our offense is more of an offense by committee, and no one player stands out with eight players within a point of each other.
I didn't see any weaknesses. We just got caught by surprise by their speed and we didn't recover.
He played well early when we needed him too. He overall had a good game. He had no chance on either goal.
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.