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spot on "60 minutes". the overall tone of the piece was sympathetic to the oil company. >> to avoid decades of court battles and uncertainty bp agreed to a more lenient compensation program. now bp vice president says the oil giant is getting soaked by businesses with losses that are not linked to the spill. >> we are talking about a wireless phone company store that burned to the ground and shut down before the spill. an rv park owner that was foreclosed upon before the spill. and i love this one. a pontiac dealer who could no longer sell pontiacs because gm had discontinued the line before the spill. >> those are all real examples and people who actually got a check. >> those are all real examples and are frankly not exceptions but emblem attic of a far larger problem. there are more than 1,000 claims just like them. >> so what we should do is just