Word: extract
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...Instead of balancing the needs of the economy and businesses against the imperative to preserve America’s wilderness for future generations, the Bush administration has given priority and far too much influence over policy to corporate interests. The administration has recklessly relaxed environmental restrictions, enabling companies to extract wood, oil, and minerals from our nation’s public lands at too great a cost. Although these companies will undoubtedly show great concern for their bottom line, it is unlikely that they will take much interest in the long-term future of our undeveloped land.Pinchot...
...most expensive examples of "bureaucratic bungling," according to Devaney, was a department program in the late 1990s to encourage oil-company exploration in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where it's more difficult than it is on land to extract the crude. Those leases exempted the companies from having to pay royalties to the federal government. The agreements, however, were supposed to have a clause in them that lifted the exemption if oil prices shot past $36 a barrel. (Oil currently sells for more than $60 a barrel.) But because of a foul-up in drafting the deepwater...
...Hizballah; Deploying up to the Litani wouldn't necessarily eliminate the rocket threat to northern Israel, because even Katyusha rockets fired from north of the river could hit the city of Kiryat Shmona and other Israeli population centers; Once in, the Israelis may find it difficult to easily extract themselves - the international force that would ostensibly take over does not yet exist, and there are doubts over whether it would materialize at all as long as there was a shooting war between Israel and Hizballah...
...could do ourselves a lot of good by stopping our whole Protocols of the Elders of Zion plan. It's been more than 100 years since the book has been out, and we have yet to come close to our goal of (I'm using the Iranian translation here) "extracting from the hands of the Lord many stars and galaxies." In fact, we have to yet to extract one single star or galaxy. Let's drop it! One of our methods of controlling the universe, according to the book, was to get people hooked on alcohol. And look how that...
...rescue workers toiled under a roasting sun to extract the dead from inside the building. The victims had sheltered on the ground floor in the belief that a large pile of dirt and sand for construction would help protect them from air raids and shelling. But the earth had become their grave when they were buried beneath it by the force of the explosions. Two soldiers cautiously used spades to dig away the dirt. What was left of the building teetered heavily to one side and looked as if it would collapse at any moment...