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...vessels, which ferry the pot inland. The many unmanned offshore oil and gas wells in the area serve as excellent rendezvous points. Local fishing boats and the supply boats that serve the oil and gas drilling rigs off the coast are usually used for the ferry operation because they attract no undue attention. Pinched by rising fuel prices and foreign competition, and attracted by huge potential profits (top retail value of a ton of pot is $1.6 million), some of the local shrimp fishermen are entering the business, though it remains controlled by Latin Americans and Cuban Americans...
Pockets of natural gas are scattered throughout the country, but many are too small to attract the attention of big oil-and gas-drilling companies. Rising prices and fears of natural gas shortages, however, have pushed companies, and even some families, into looking for fuel in their own backyards. General Motors is one of nearly 200 companies drilling for gas in Ohio, and today the automaker has 200 wells pumping on property adjacent to its Lordstown plant. American Standard supplies its Swissvale, Pa., switch and signal manufacturing factory with gas from four wells located a scant 40 ft. from...
...development in Brazil, Muller's favorite example of this type of cooperation, provides a frightening case of successful enterprise but mistaken priorities. The government there provided sufficient bait to attract U.S. automoblie manfuacturers and other multinationals. This bias in Brazil toward export-oriented industrial and urban development significantly diluted relief to the rural poor there. Similarly, Muller notes that after years of stangation the Indian steel industry has become an exporter. But at what cost to the millions starving in India's villages and cities? Although his global market plan may provide a boon to the United States and other...
...study somehow attract boys who were brighter than the girls? In the majority of the searches, the girls did better in relation to nationwide scores of college-bound female seniors than the boys did to college-bound male seniors...
This album will either disorient or enlighten Jackson's old fans, and ought to attract some aesthetes who had dismissed him as a lightweight; he has grown as a poet and musician. The idols in his world are no longer the women he loses; nor are they the misfits or the blacks and whites battling for a nonexistent ideal. Instead, he praises the kids who have gone 'beat crazy'. By living in music, dressing as they please, and ignoring the world's attempts to involve them in World War III, they prove to be the only one pursuing attainable...