Word: drill
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...ventures in the oil industry have ever produced such a gusher of speculation. Early next month, engineers will drill a 14,000-ft. well near Jarim Reef off the island of Bahrain, a tiny Persian Gulf nation not far from the world's richest oil deposits. If the exploratory pipe hits crude, it will enrich a cast of investors that includes the Bass brothers of Texas, the Rupert family of South Africa, the Harvard University endowment fund and George W. Bush, the President's eldest son. If the well is dry, the episode will prompt shareholders to wonder why they...
...suburban Dallas company is surely one of the most mysterious and eccentric outfits ever to drill for oil. Harken consists of almost no assets besides an exclusive 35-year contract to explore for crude in Bahrain. When the country's rulers handed Harken that deal early last year, it puzzled oil experts around the world. Why would Bahrain stake so much of its financial future on an obscure, money-losing company with no refineries and no experience in offshore oil exploration? "It was a surprise," says Jay Gallagher, a senior analyst for Petroconsultants, one of the world's largest...
Luzak trapped the ball 35 yards out and surged to within 15 yards to drill a shot into the left corner for the game-winner...
...blow off your clothes." In the same town, he finds the spare, waste-no-words diary of 18-year-old Elizabeth Ann Mardin, a bride newly arrived in Kansas. For June 21, 1862: "I went a goosebarrying in the fore noon and I went to see the soldiers drill in the after noon it was a plesant day." For Dec. 12, of the same year: "We cleaned some of the ((hog)) guts for soap grease it sprinkled rain...
Harvard came out stronger in the second half. Sarah Downing, Kristen Fowler, and Francie Walton made a series of sideline combinations that dumped the ball in Yale's end. The Elis defenders may as well have been orange cones in a practice drill for all their effectiveness...