Word: alaska
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...opposition to tax increases on oil will make that difficult. On the other hand, oil imports in this year's first half declined to 7.8 million bbl. a day-almost a 13% drop from the same period in 1977 -because conservation is working, and oil is arriving from Alaska. Carter also promised to counter the nation's double-digit inflation...
...their own. They recognize that a few disappointments should not cause them to give up the search at sea. So far, only two test wells-the Conoco and Shell dry holes-have been drilled to completion in the Baltimore Canyon. By comparison, at least eleven were sunk into Alaska's North Slope before a good find was made. In the North Sea, it took 50 false starts, and in oil-rich Western Canada the number reached...
Independent oil brokers in Scotland, who claimed to have received reports directly from the rigs, said that the field could contain as much as 13 billion bbl., nearly as much as Alaska's North Slope. By comparison, Britain's North Sea fields are thought to contain anywhere from 19 billion to 30 billion...
...Second Circuit is so far unique among U.S. appeals courts, it is not because other judges have not explored new ways of clearing their dockets. On the West Coast, the Ninth Circuit has experimented with efficiency controls. But its sheer geographic size-it runs from Arizona to Alaska to Guam-makes uniform procedure difficult to impose and spreads the circuit's 13 judges thin. The Fifth, which covers many Southern states, is the busiest of the circuits, handling almost 30% of all federal appeals. Fifth judges have taken even more draconian time-saving measures than the Second. Under...
...adoption in 1977 by the two countries of 200-mile territorial limits for fishing. The jurisdictions overlapped in four areas: Georges Bank off New England, the Juan de Fuca Strait between Vancouver Island and Washington, waters off the Alaskan Panhandle and the Beaufort Sea off northeastern Alaska. With negotiations to settle the border problem going nowhere, Canada banned U.S. commercial fishermen from its waters. The U.S. quickly reciprocated...