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...Fahrenheit? was both an event and a fluke. Moore made it, and sold it, with a combination of indefatigable ingenuity and churlish charisma. He, not Bush, was the star at the movie?s center. And he wasn?t only angry; he was also funny. That?s docu-tainment...
...experience of BP suggests that Yukos' success with modern production techniques wasn't a fluke. After a year of operations, BP recently gave the first detailed report about its joint venture, called TNK BP. The surprises are all good: it has revised the level of reserves upward, production growth is well above the expected 7% annual increase, and the firm has decided to double its capital spending to make more of the opportunities it is finding. In the Soviet era, BP officials explain, oil wells were developed in a cookie-cutter approach; by tailoring solutions to each reservoir and well...
...experience of BP suggests that Yukos' success with modern production techniques wasn't a fluke. After a year of operations, BP recently gave the first detailed report about its joint venture, called TNK BP. The surprises are all good: it has revised the level of reserves upward, production growth is well above the expected 7% annual increase, and the firm has decided to double its capital spending to make more of the opportunities it is finding. In the Soviet era, BP officials explain, oil wells were developed in a cookie-cutter approach that didn't customize extraction techniques...
With that one run in the Crimson’s opening contest on Sept. 18, Dawson let it be known that his success from last year wasn’t a fluke. He was back—a year older and a year better...
...Harvard’s season-opening 35-0 dismantling of hapless Holy Cross, both offense and defense wasted no time starting the year off right. Sophomore tailback Clifton Dawson proved his rookie season was no fluke, accumulating 184 yards on the ground and scoring three touchdowns, while the Crimson defense applied constant pressure to the Crusaders quarterback, forcing him to throw three interceptions and holding the team to 131 yards of offense...