Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest problem looming over the project is what to do with the oil when it begins pouring into storage tanks at the Alaskan port of Valdez. The first tankers loaded with the oil are due to be on their way to Long Beach, Calif., by the end of August. About 30% of the oil is to be transshipped to refineries on the West Coast. Standard Oil Co. of Ohio (Sohio), which is owned by British Petroleum, wants to pump the rest of the oil, which is not needed in the Pacific Coast area, to refineries in Texas through an existing...
...affidavit filed in the case states that a bloody hack saw was found at the Kearney-Hill apartment in Redondo Beach. The apartment also yielded hair samples and bloodstains that match those of the victim LaMay, whose body -according to the affidavit-was discovered in a plastic bag taken from the Hughes Aircraft...
...peak of his rambunctious form, Chairman Charles Bluhdorn of Gulf & Western Industries, one of the world's biggest conglomerates (1976 sales: $3.4 billion), is a curiously compulsive monologuist. Whether lolling with a weekend visitor by a sleepy lagoon outside his luxurious beach house, La Favorita, in the Dominican Republic or lecturing to an awed audience in his company's baronial headquarters suite overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, Bluhdorn fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded...
...mile ride downtown. Flow Through: slow. No curbside checkin. Baggage carts hard to find. No moving sidewalks. TV screens, showing departure gates, not always functioning. Longest walk: 1,300 ft. Baggage checkout: 20 min. Immigration and customs: airport's only delight. Hotels/Motels: pleasant, modern facilities near beach at Ostia, five miles away. Amenities: substandard. Coffee bars (espresso 30?, Coke 57?). Best restaurant: International Airport Restaurant. Ten bars, open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; one in international transit section open 24 hr. Two tax-free shops selling only liquor and cigarettes. (Best distraction for passenger with two hours to spare...
Beer cans and candy wrappers disfigure many mountain paths. Sounds familiar to the city pierce the silence. "I can't understand these people with their big mobile homes with generators and all the stuff," lamented Hal Stein, a construction company supervisor from Huntington Beach, Calif., during a visit to Yosemite. "They come up here, watch TV with a beer in their hand, look out the window and say, 'Ain't it pretty...