Word: basins
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...hundred and fifty million years ago (is this not the way James Michener would begin?), a depression that would come to be known as the Permian Basin developed in what would come to be known as West Texas. Then, to make a long story short (the demands here are somewhat more telescopic than those Big Jim labors under), there would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish...
...effects of shifts in the co-ed team’s lineup rippled into the No. 9 women’s team, which finished eighth of 12 teams in a weekend regatta on the Charles’ Lower Basin...
...play, directed by Harvard Law School Professor Bruce L. Hay, Bearing oscillates between narrating her own experience with intellectual detachment and living it with graphic, emotional loss of control; in one scene she may lecture on hospital procedure and in another sob hysterically while vomiting into a plastic basin. Edson has her heroine’s experiences parallel Donne’s, making for a play that, like his poems, is both intellectually complex and emotionally wrenching...
...Reuters reported in October 2004 that Sinopec had purchased a six percent stake in two Sudanese oil blocks in the eastern Upper Nile region of the country. And the Washington Post reported in December that Sinopec is constructing a pipeline connecting the Melut Basin, in the south of Sudan, to a tanker terminal...
Once the pipeline from the Melut Basin is up and running, revenues will be shared by the Khartoum regime and the rebel-led government of South Sudan, said Jemera Rone, a researcher at Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. Until a final peace accord is reached ending the two-decade-long Sudanese civil war, the South’s share of oil revenues will accrue interest in an escrow fund, Rone said...