Word: jim
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...landmark deal: with a $2 billion bid, the U.S. firm ConocoPhillips had just won an auction for the Russian government's 7.6% stake in the firm. The two companies promptly announced a strategic alliance to develop oil reserves in the Russian Arctic and potentially work together in Iraq. For Jim Mulva, Conoco's president and chief executive, the deal amounted to a coup, giving Conoco access to 8 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves at a relatively modest cost. Lukoil was delighted, too, because it is counting on the Americans to help it extract and market the oil more efficiently...
After finishing the first half on a high note—junior forward Zach Martin connected on a three-pointer off an inbounds pass from sophomore guard Jim Goffredo as time expired—the Crimson came out flat in the second half and allowed Northeastern to go on a 10-2 run to tie the game within 90 seconds...
...Curse of the Bambino would have it. He kept his baseball, theatrical and real estate businesses entirely separate. The so-called curse of the past 86 years has been nothing but a pathetic excuse for more than eight decades of mediocre baseball, which is thankfully now put to rest. Jim Frazee Oslo Floating to Flores Your story on the discovery of the remains of a primitive tribe of tiny cave-dwelling humans on the Indonesian island of Flores [Nov. 8] reported that its elephants may have swum the distance that separated Flores from the nearest land when the sea level...
...Christians who resist the anything-goes tide find themselves in a society that will tolerate almost anything but conservative Christians, says Jim Wallace, a retired SAS commander who heads the Australian Christian Lobby. "Until the '60s the influence of the Judeo-Christian ethic was quite strong, and that was very constraining for people with counter-Christian agendas, like the homosexual lobby, the sex industry, the marijuana lobby. They couldn't really get anywhere until they neutralized that influence." As a result, Christians have been "blasted and denigrated to the point where they are reluctant to stick their head above...
Previous HCC events have failed to simply break even. In October, the HCC put on a comedy event featuring Jim Breuer which lost $302 on top of the $15,000 that the council expected to lose because of ticket subsidization...