Word: drill
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...Earth Day Alaska is being sponsored in part by ARCO, which destroys Alaskan land and wildlife in order to drill and transport...
...best they can hope for is 80% to 90% during the spring and summer months, when local farms are in full bloom; in winter the percentage can slip below 50%. Running an organic restaurant presents other problems. The hours are longer than the average restaurant's, and the drill is more tedious. Menus can change daily, depending on what is available. Since there is no federal definition of what is organic, chefs tend to rely on products certified as authentic by various local groups. They rush as often as five times a week to local farmers' markets or grow their...
Lehtinen affects a paramilitary style that has won him few friends around the office. He posts his motto -- NO GUTS. NO GLORY --on bulletin boards, barks orders like a drill sergeant, and once waved a toy AK-47 at his staff. He often shouts and curses, and has been known to throw objects. A number of experienced prosecutors have left, including Richard Gregorie, the 17-year veteran who got the Noriega indictment...
...think of the telephone purely as a secular voice thrower, it arrives in the mind at its most irritating. For example, no one has yet devised a pleasant way for a telephone to come to life. The ring is a sudden intrusion, a drill in the ear. Pavlov's dog hears and picks the damned thing up. The Satanic bleats from some new phones are the equivalent of sound lasers. Don't hurt me again, says the dog. I'll talk. Perhaps the phone that looks like a duck decoy and quacks instead of ring will breed new species -- phones...
...nations may discuss tourism when they meet later this year, but they are more likely to be preoccupied with the growing debate over the future of oil and mineral development. Concern first arose after the 1973 oil crisis, when it became clear that there might someday be pressure to drill for petroleum, even in the harsh Antarctic environment. Eventually, the treaty nations decided it was best to have rules in effect before that happened. The result was the Wellington Convention, agreed to by representatives of 20 treaty nations in New Zealand's capital in June 1988. The document essentially forbids...