Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's 11-0 victory over RPI, the defending ECAC and national champions, Saturday night at Bright Center resembled nothing so much as a two-hour drill...
This delay proved to be embarrassing. A sticky bolt prevented the removal of an exterior-hatch handle. Lockheed technicians called for a special drill, which took 20 minutes to arrive. When it did, the battery was dead. There were no replacements on hand. After 90 minutes of fiddling, an ordinary hacksaw was used to free the bolt...
...Corrigan, Christa's father, said wryly, "I would have gotten the hacksaw sooner." Commented his wife Grace: "I would have gotten my nail file." One veteran consultant to NASA was less charitable, asking, "Can you imagine a pad leader permitting an s.o.b. to show up for work with a drill with a dead battery...
...Southwest face gusher-size troubles of their own. In Texas, the center of the U.S. oil industry, government analysts estimate that each $1-per-bbl. drop in prices will cost the state 25,000 jobs and $100 million in revenues. The declines make it less rewarding for companies to drill and develop wells. Local banks could suffer greatly if the fall continues. Says Frank Anderson, director of financial research for Weber, Hall, Sale & Associates, a Dallas brokerage: "The real problem will come if the contract price gets to $15 per bbl. and stays there for six months to a year...
This effect is no doubt intentional on Gilliam's part, for what he has crafted here is a tribute to the human imagination. Though the body may be shocked, beaten and tortured with a power drill, the mind is still free to escape. As is apparent in the final scene, where he soars through the clouds in a torture chair singing "Brazil," Lowry's mind gets away...