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...counterpoint, almost seemed to leapfrog each other. In the 1970s, for example, Massachusetts appeared to be threadbare and obsolete, a ghost town of the Industrial Revolution, its people shivering through the winters of the oil shortage. Texas boomed with energy--the kind it pumped out of the Permian Basin and the kind that came from its adrenal glands. Now it is Texas that is chastened and Massachusetts that seems, for the moment, to belong to the future. Two reports...
...lightweight four race at 9:30 a.m. was moved into the "powerhouse stretch,"--a less distinctly marked and shorter course between the BU and Weeks bridges--because of poor water conditions on the regular racecourse. The regular 2000-meter racecourse is in the basin of the river, and lies 1000 meters downriver from the Mass Ave. Bridge, and ends at the Hyatt...
...have a stable domestic supply of energy in the years ahead." Offshore exploration looks attractive because as many as 10 billion bbl. of oil is believed to be tucked under California's continental shelf, where geological forces favored the formation of large pools like the Santa Maria Basin field discovered in 1980 along the coast north of Los Angeles. Estimated by industry experts to hold up to 1 billion bbl. of oil, that field will more than quadruple California's oil production on federal offshore lands, from 82,000 bbl. a day to 350,000, when it comes into full...
...more immediate incentive to pursue those offshore tracts. Since lease rates rise and fall with oil prices, the Interior Department sale is expected to offer some tempting bargains. Five years ago, for instance, when oil prices were riding high, the average price paid for tracts in the Santa Maria Basin was $6,387.82 per acre. But if petroleum prices stay at their current depressed levels, the new oil leases could go for much less...
Water levels are rising because of years of abnormal amounts of rain and snowfall, 26% above normal in the lakes basin during 1985 alone. With damages totaling well above $15 million since last spring, lake dwellers are heading into the snowmelt and storm season with growing dread...