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Chakib Sbiti is executive vice president of Schlumberger Oilfield Services (OFS).

He studied Electrical Engineering in France and joined Schlumberger in 1981 as a field engineer.

In a speech, Developing Human Resources for the Future Oil & Gas Industry, given at the 2004 SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Sbiti reflected on the next generation of oil men and women: Where will tomorrow's workforce come from, how will they be educated.

Nance Lyons
Nance Lyons has been practicing employment law in Boston.

The Law Office of Nance Lyons represents plaintiffs and small businesses in personal injury, discrimination, wrongful termination, breach of contract, anti-compete issues and all other employment causes of action.

Practice Areas: Employment, Consumer Protection, Business Disputes, Sexual Abuse, General Torts.

Lyons is a Certified Mediator on employment disputes and serves as a Board Member of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

Lyons was also a former assistant to US Senator Robert Kennedy as a member of the Boiler Room Girls.

worldalmanac
The almanac is now produced by the World Almanac Education Group, which is owned by The Weekly Reader corporation (WRC Media Inc.). The Almanac is distributed throughout the world by Simon & Schuster.

1868: First edition
The first edition was published by The New York World newspaper in 1868 (the name of the publication comes from the newspaper itself, which was known as "The World"). Its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

1876: Suspended; 1886:Revived by Pulitzer
Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased The New York World, revived annual publication of the almanac with the intention of making it "a compendium of universal knowledge."

1894,1923: Name changes
In 1894, The World Almanac changed its name to The World Almanac and Encyclopedia. This was the title it kept until 1923, when it became The World Almanac and Book of Facts, the name it bears today.

1940's: World War II
During World War II, between 1944 and 1946, at the request of the U.S. Government, the almanac had special print runs of 100,000 to 150,000 copies for distribution to the armed forces.

Publications
Some lists published are:
 * "World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium", 2000
 * "World Almanac's 25 Most Influential Women in America" (includes Helen Thomas, Gloria Steinem, Jane Bryant Quinn, Mary Cunningham Agee, Erma Bombeck, Phyllis Schlafly, ...)

Trivia

 * In 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn as president after Warren Harding's sudden death by his father, a Vermont Justice, who read the oath of office from a copy of the almanac.
 * In 1961, a wire service photograph showed President John F. Kennedy sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office and on his desk were 6 books: the only reference book was the almanac.
 * A 1999 New York Times photo showed President Bill Clinton in almost the exact same position, seated at his desk in the Oval Office. Clearly visible on the desk behind him are busts of Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, pictures of his wife and daughter, a Bible, and a copy of the almanac.
 * At Franklin Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park, a reproduction of his White House desk includes a copy of The World Almanac 1945.
 * Film:
 * Fred MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity
 * Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve
 * Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt about it in Love in the Afternoon
 * it is featured in Miracle on 34th Street when a trial is held to see if Santa Claus really exists
 * Rosie Perez continually reads it in the film White Men Can't Jump.
 * Television:
 * featured on Wheel of Fortune as a puzzle title to solve
 * regularly cited as a source on Jeopardy!

Quotes

 * "My #1 reference work for facts." -- Will Shortz, The New York Times Crossword Editor
 * "Useful to any human being on the planet. The World Almanac still reigns as the world's most powerful reference." --The Seattle Times
 * "The most useful reference book known to modern man." --Los Angeles Times
 * "It's the best in the business" --Manchester Union Leader

Wealthiest Persons
Forbe's List of billionaires

Political/Matrimonial Alliances

 * 1926: David K. Bruce & Ailsa Mellon
 * 1953: Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. & Eunice Mary Kennedy - married on May 23, 1953
 * 1986: Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger & Maria Owings Shriver - married on April 26, 1986
 * 1990: Andrew Mark Cuomo & Mary Kerry Kennedy - married on June 9, 1990, in Washington, D.C.
 * 1992: Bobby "Bobby" Koch & Dorothy Bush - married in June 1992 at Camp David
 * ?: James Carville & Mary Joe Matalin
 * ?: B. Jay Cooper & Chris Black ??