Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doing for them, and estimates that some 6 million people lose perfectly salvageable teeth each year, many at "extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest or both." As an antidote to such outrages, the book urges consumers to drill their dentists on basic subjects like costs, procedures and alternatives before submitting to anything more drastic than a tooth cleaning...
...computer men-Hammer believes Russian cyberneticists are often better logicians than their U.S. counterparts. However, they are oriented toward the oretical problems. At the big Soviet training institutes, students concentrate very little on the standard international computer language for commerce, known as COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). Instead, they drill in ALGOL and FORTRAN, the two major scientific languages...
...drilling is the work of independent operators Their names-Houston Oil & Minerals Mesa Petroleum; Sanchez-O'Brien and Denver's Davis Oil are some of the "hot" outfits-are unknown to the public. But last year Davis, for example, discovered more onshore gas and oil wells in the U.S. than Exxon. Lately the big firms have begun to drill more too. So far this year Shell has sunk 59 wells in the U.S., compared with only...
...Prince Mohamed, another son of Faisal and a business-administration graduate of Menlo College in California, is the chief of Saudi Arabia's water-desalination agency. He must grapple with his country's Midas-like curse: wherever explorers drill for water, oil shoots up. The prince directs a $12 billion program to build 35 desalination plants in five years that would produce 600 million gal. of fresh water daily...
...makes a hash of his already soppy theme when the leaders of the warring realms meet for a climactic duel of good magic v. bad. Bakshi has the kindly wizard of Montagar pull out a Luger and drill the evil sorcerer of Scortch...