Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winner turned out to be the Government, which is the recipient of the lease-sale money. Congressional budget officials in February had estimated that the sale might bring in $500 million or so, but when the counting stopped, 23 companies had offered $2.1 billion for the right to drill on 125 tracts covering 660,000 acres of the outer continental shelf. It was the most money ever bid at an Alaska offshore lease sale, but fell short of the record $2.6 billion drawn in September 1980 for 116 tracts in the Gulf of Mexico...
Environmentalists, though, strongly oppose plans to drill on the outer continental shelf, claiming they are ill conceived and hastily developed and will threaten an ecologically fragile area. In addition, the powerful Sierra Club argues that the Government could get far more for its leases if it held back from opening so much land so quickly. That would give prices time to rise and allow oil companies time to collect money to make even higher bids...
...other attract ions in the saturday show--the Harvard band and the football team it self-are for the most positive about the presence of cheerleaders. Mike McClung, band drill master, says the approt between the two groups is improving all the time. "At first, it was only natural for the hand--which had been the only student activity at football games for years--to feel its territory was being infringed upon. But now we recognize that these people are having a great time and admirably entertaining the crowd so we repest them...
...snug, and the staunch lettering of EXTRA-STRENGTH, the whole shape of the thing comforting, like an old-fashioned milk bottle or a VW Beetle: it looks especially good in rows. Something about the rows, all the neat chunky boxes, one after the other, facing forward like a drill team on the shelf. Something about the shelf, third from the top, aisle B, toward the rear of the store, about which there is also something, as there is about the street and the hour of the day, any day, and the headache or the sniffles...
Eddie appreciated the help since he also coached girls' and boys' basketball (high school and college) and baseball. Otherwise, he lined the field, directed the girls' drill team at halftime and drove the injured players to the doctor after the game. Then he would sit down and write the story of the game for small newspapers that generally neglected to run it, copying his leads from the big papers. "One of them," he recalls, "went: 'Outlined against a blue-gray October sky . . .' " After Tank Younger arrived in 1945, it was the other teams' coaches...