Word: barreled
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...staff editorial “Protect the Refuge” (Editorial, March 5), The Crimson leaves out key facts that make the case for drilling very persuasive. The article says that the USGS predicts that there are only “3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable crude oil” in the reserve; however, that misrepresents the total amount available. The phrase “economically recoverable” only means the amount of oil “for which the costs of discovery, development, and production, including a return to capital, can be recovered at a given well...
...Crimson is right that we are not “clutching to our last barrel of oil.” But, on March 6th, oil prices rose over 1 percent on the heels of reports from the American Petroleum Institute that American oil supplies are at their lowest level since January 1974. Opening a small portion of the ANWR to oil drilling will give the government an influx of revenue in the short term and a substantial amount of oil in the long term, both of which will help the U.S. decrease our dependence on foreign oil and formulate...
...This is the 'New Japan' and it's spelled 'T-O-U-G-H.'" JESPER KOLL, chief economist at Merrill Lynch Japan, on the need for real reform, not old-style pork-barrel solutions...
...take one of his father's guns from a locked cabinet inside the apartment. "Andy took the key off the chain when his dad was sleeping," says Stevens. It's unclear whether Williams' father noticed the theft of the gun--a rare, German-made Arminius .22-cal. long-barrel revolver with an eight-shot capacity. But after the shooting, police retrieved seven other guns from the cabinet, which they said was properly locked...
...just minutes after emerging from a Lenten Mass Wednesday morning honoring the San Diego school-shooting victims, Bush walked into the cafeteria armed with a .22-cal. pistol, one of the 12 guns her father owned, and shot classmate Kimberly Marchese in the shoulder. Bush then placed the gun barrel against her own temple and announced that she wanted to kill herself. School staff and another student talked Bush out of pulling the trigger, and Marchese spent just one evening in the hospital. But if the outcome was far less bloody than what had taken place two days earlier...