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...case was debated in the Middlesex Third District Court--even through the Faculty voted to dismiss all criminal charges and discipline the students themselves. In court, the students argued that Glimp hadn't warned them of the bust, but all but four of the students were found guilty. They were given $20 fines...
Boston or Bust...
Such woes are the bust side of the boom that fueled the energy industry at the end of the 1970s. Oilmen, expecting the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to push prices to $50 or even $75 per bbl., spent billions to find and develop wells and then were startled when consumption dropped and prices fell. OPEC, which had been trying to resist the slide, acknowledged the new era last month by cutting its official price 15%, from $34 to $29 per bbl. Observes T. Boone Pickens Jr., chairman of Mesa Petroleum and a 32-year veteran of the industry...
...signs of the bust are widespread and unmistakable. Hundreds of small and medium-size U.S. energy firms have filed for protection from creditors during the past year, and scores more may follow. Companies have budgeted $35.7 billion for drilling and exploration this year, 14% less than in 1982. In the field, only 1,882 rigs were drilling in the U.S. in the first week of April (see chart). That count was the lowest in six years and nearly 60% below the December 1981 peak of more than...
...broken stairs. There is the stench of urine. Flickering candles light the way. The guards order the buyers to face the wall so that they cannot see the delivery. "Have your money ready!" one yells. "No ones. Only fives, tens and 20s. No talkin' or we'll bust your honky heads." Finally the Captain is at the head of the line facing a battered red steel door. He puts $150 on a piece of cardboard protruding from under the door. It disappears. "What...