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...Offshore Logistics, which leases helicopters to offshore drillers, rose from $2 a share to $12 last year. A less oblique sign is that the U.S. is back to importing fully 46% of its oil, or 7.9 million bbl. a day, the largest percentage in ten years. Domestic production of crude oil recorded its biggest decline ever last year, falling to a 26-year...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and The Harvard Crimson recently participated in what should be perceived as an attack on the gay community by using the most crude and violent tactics at their disposal to publicly humiliate, and consequently, to devastate seven gay men who were recently arrested for engaging in "open and gross lewdness" in the Science Center bathroom...
...dispute goes back to 1983, when Paramount agreed to buy the rights to Buchwald's proposal It's a Crude, Crude World, a tale of an African royal who ventures to the U.S. and falls in love in a Washington ghetto. Paramount renamed it King for a Day and began developing it as a vehicle for Eddie Murphy, but abandoned the project two years later, having paid Buchwald a total...
While the energy squeeze is far less severe than the shocks of the '70s, the days of cheap and superabundant oil are probably gone. A barrel of crude now costs about $23, up from $17 a year ago, largely because of growing consumption. Rising energy prices were the main reason that the Government's index of wholesale prices increased 4.8% during 1989, the steepest rate since 1981. The forecast for this winter: even if temperatures stay at relatively comfortable levels, relief from higher fuel costs is unlikely...
Last week British, Spanish and French spill experts were on hand to help, but little could be done. Although 40% of the Iranian light crude had evaporated, the remainder was harder to dispel. Chemical dispersants, sprayed in limited quantities early in the week to break down the crude and make it sink, were effective for only a few days, until the oil emulsified, or mixed and bonded with seawater. Closer to shore, crews floated booms to protect oyster beds against the oil patch, which at one point came to within twelve miles...