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American drilling activity has already leveled off in the Williston Basin of Montana and the Dakotas and the Austin Chalk of central south Texas. Chesley Pruett, a drilling contractor operating out of El Dorado, Ark., said recently, "Last year at this time I had my rigs booked up six months in advance. Now the work is coming in well by well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plunging Petroleum Prices | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...flasks, a biscuit tin, a fluted bowl, some long-beaked metal pitchers. They carry no marks, patterns or brand names. They look fragile and contingent, but they endure for decades, through picture after picture. (To make sure that nothing disturbed the precise relationships he put them in, Morandi drew chalk circles around the bases of his "models" on the surface of the table.) Sometimes the things have the look of architecture; the slender bottle necks, leaning together, vaguely recall the towers of Bologna and San Gimignano. Occasionally their groups, bound together by some mutual gravitation of shape, might remind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master of Unfussed Clarity | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

Trailing by three, 56-53, as late as midway through the second half, the Crimson managed to find the intensity necessary to spiff up a largely lackluster performance and chalk up its first win of the year...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Split Over Break | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Simple demonstrations can illustrate profound concepts in physics, Nobel-prize winning physicist Edward M. Purcell--who called the overhead projector "the greatest invention since chalk"--told a small crowd in the Science Center yesterday...

Author: By Leah D. Rush, | Title: Purcell Speaks | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

Despite these uninspiring realities, Kleinfelder contends--as do several members of the squad--that the team has the potential to chalk up a number of victories this winter and improve on last year's fifth place Ivy League finish...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Women Hoopsters' Season Begins Tonight in IAB | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

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