Word: flush
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...taking measures that may have unintentionally raised the risks. Drilling more wells to further develop Prudhoe just adds to the more than 1,700 miles of pipeline that already crisscross the North Slope, increasing the chance of leaks. And other techniques, such as injecting water into old wells to flush out remaining pockets of oil, can be hard on the pipes. The corrosion behind this month's leak, for example, is thought to have been started by water that got into the pipeline, eating away at the steel...
...having problems with defense right now,” said the voice on the other end of the line. It belonged to Wylde, calling from Wareham.“We just need you down here. Can you come down tomorrow?”Brown’s face went flush.“He nearly jumped out of the telephone,” Wylde says.***The story of baseball’s Captain Morgan Brown doesn’t begin in quiet Alstead, N.H., on a late summer day. It doesn’t build up to an extraordinary afternoon...
...course, Tony is not so flush that he can't walk into an eyeglass store owned by a civilian connected to his business, impose on him for a huge favor, then pick out a pair of Armani shades and say, "You know what? I left my wallet in the car." For Tony, the money is not the point. The point is not having...
...algorithmic model refined by NetJets and other fractionals businesses (if I have X customers, how many jets, boats, rooms, etc. will I need to meet demand at any given time period Y?), developers have zeroed in on a core market: older, well-heeled baby boomers, high-level executives and flush empty-nesters who want to play among themselves or with their families...
...benefit. He was once hired at $500 per day to fix a blood-analysis machine in a testing laboratory, and immediately realized that the tank for deionizing the machine’s water supply was contaminated with bacteria. It took him only two days to clean the tank and flush clean water through the system.“They were paying me $500 a day, and I finished in two days!” he reflects. “What a moron!”—Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...