Word: coasting
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Texaco completed its pipeline from the rain forest to the Pacific coast of Ecuador in 1972. From 1972 to 1989, 1.4 billion barrels of oil passed through the pipeline. Over those 17 years, 27 spills occurred, releasing an estimated 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into one of the world's biodiversity hot spots and the traditional home of thousands of Ecuadorian natives. Judith Kimerling, a Yale-educated attorney and the author of Amazon Crude, estimates that, even today, 4.3 million gallons of untreated toxic wastes are being released into the watershed every...
Although it has sold most of its interests in Ecuador, Texaco has not been content to leave the developing world alone. In 1991 it became the lead operator in a multinational consortium of oil companies searching for natural gas off the coast of Burma...
...most investigators long ago concluded, but was jointly the work of Iran and Syria. And Washington is still talking about the incident last year in which Salinger, 71, who was John F. Kennedy's press secretary, cornered George Bush at a conference on a cruise ship off the Florida coast. During dinner Salinger rose from his table and went unbidden to the former President's, where he aggressively offered Bush his view that the Gulf War could have been avoided if the U.S. had sent Saddam Hussein a clearer message of its intention to defend Kuwait. Witnesses say that eventually...
...waters off the coast of Long Island, around-the-clock dredging of the crash site is just about finished. Last week boats also discovered the remains of another of the 230 dead, leaving 15 still unaccounted for. Salinger says the FBI has encouraged him to continue his investigation. If he's wrong about the missile theory, he says, it would be "the first mistake I've made since the 1930s or early 1940s." One hopes the official investigators on the case are driven by a more humble attitude...
Last year the 42-year-old director paid a dozen visits to the ocean-floor site of the Titanic wreck, some 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland and 2 1/2 dark and chilly miles below the surface, to shoot footage. That meant nearly three hours drifting to the bottom of the sea, packed with two crew members into a sphere about 7 ft. in diameter. Cameron, an inveterate thrill seeker, loved...