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Brazil and Columbia have sizeable deposits of the stuff, but the largest supplies are in two other countries. One is the U.S.S.R. It doesn't take a foreign policy expert to squirm at the thought of being dependent on the Soviets for our energy supply...
...charges collected by the hospital are the third largest source of revenue for the city, Healy reported. With the tremendous deficit incurred by the hospital, one of every 10 dollars raised in property taxes is currently devoted to the hospital, he wrote in the report...
Felix Gallardo, 43, was thought to run one of the largest cocaine trafficking operations in the world...
...midweek Exxon, owner of the wounded tanker, admitted that the largest oil spill in U.S. history was spreading out of control; by week's end the slick covered almost 900 sq. mi. southwest of Valdez, Alaska, posing a deadly danger to the marine and bird life that teems in Prince William Sound. The story, a tale of unrelieved gloom with no heroes, resembled a Greek tragedy updated by Murphy's Law. Everything that could go wrong did; everyone involved, including the Alaska state government and the U.S. Coast Guard, made damaging errors; hubris in the form of complacency...
...like a Rust Belt relic than a showplace of new industrial ideas. The Elektrosila power-equipment plant is an aging labyrinth of concrete buildings and connecting tunnels. Nearly half its creaky machine tools and other equipment was built in the 1960s. Yet this factory is the Soviet Union's largest producer of turbine generators for hydroelectric plants and nuclear power stations. Moreover, Elektrosila stands at the forefront of Mikhail Gorbachev's campaign to rejuvenate Soviet industry by freeing factories from the total, stifling control of government bureaucracies...