Word: drilling
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...Certainly if the just-tuning-in, undecided voter were tuning in for issues, Round 1 could not have disappointed. On the surplus (big tax cut or small tax cuts), Social Security (privatize some or not), energy policy (drill Alaska or not to drill Alaska), and anything else one might have been listening for, the differences were clear and usually cheerfully admitted...
...plan does not include a detailed energy policy. Last week he said he would try to persuade OPEC to increase the supply of oil by reminding "the folks over there who sent the troops on the ground." He proposes to increase oil exploration at home, expand refining capacity and drill in the Arctic refuge...
...dinner for major donors, he sat with lobbyists at a table guarded by the Secret Service and then slipped away without slapping one back. At a Labor Day parade in Illinois, as George W. Bush careened from side to side pressing the flesh, Cheney kept in formation like a drill sergeant...
...much of the campaign year, environmentalist groups have dogged the Gore campaign over the fate of the U'wa, an 5,00-strong indigenous Colombian tribe who've threatened to commit mass suicide if Occidental goes ahead with a plan to drill oil on land they hold sacred. Just last week pro-U'wa hecklers disrupted a University of Missouri speech by Karenna Gore-Schiff, and a second group were arrested trying to enter a Gore campaign office in Washington state. Of course, these protests are mostly an opportunistic effort by the tribe's supporters to take advantage...
...Robert Griffin joined the Crusaders this year as quarterbacks coach. He spent 1995-98 as an assistant at Syracuse and brought the offense that made Donovan McNabb a star with him to Worcester. Murphy will not really have a chance to drill his linebackers in the finer points of that system. Rather, they will have to rely upon football instincts that have not really had a chance to develop...