Word: crude
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...malapropisms -- calling the French painter "Toujours Lautrec," asking some fellow schemers to "include me out" of a deal -- gained Samuel Goldwyn a perverse fame as the archetypal Hollywood immigrant mogul, crude and semiliterate. But as A. Scott Berg demonstrates in this readable, richly researched biography, Goldwyn was never an archetypal anything, except in his poor Jewish origins in Eastern Europe. Unlike the Mayers and Warners, he made relatively few films, and he never built a mighty empire with a huge star roster and an immense distribution network. He was the ultimate independent producer, with a compulsive need for autonomy...
...tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in the sound on March 24 after filling its storage tanks with crude from the trans-Alaska pipeline. More than 10 million gallons of oil poured into the sound...
...month after the Exxon Valdez disgorged 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound, the effort to combat the worst such spill in U.S. history assumed the tempo of a military operation. By last week Exxon alone had mobilized 460 vessels, 26 aircraft and the first 2,850 members of what is expected to be a 4,000-person cleanup brigade. Said a company executive: "We could invade a small country with what we have deployed here...
...will be enormous. By last week the oil slick had traveled across an 1,800-sq.-mi. area. To stop its advance, "skimming" vessels sucked up the crude for transfer to dredging barges. Onshore, ten-man crews hosed down rocks with heated seawater. The two-pronged drive to clear sea and shore was plagued by snafus and logistical problems. As the weathered oil hardened into a debris-laden "mousse," the Soviet skimming ship found that the crude was too thick for its pumps and managed to recover only a few hundred barrels. And as the point of the oil slick...
OPEC "can hold the globe to energy ransom," Onoar says. The problem will be aggravated within the next decade, he says, because the U.S. may run out of domestically produced crude...