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...only that, oil companies apparently showed an apparent callousness to events that actually resulted in them making a profit. In October 1998, Marathon Oil's internal economic analysis cheered the disruptive and destructive Hurricane Georges ("Nature stepped in to lend a helping hand") and appeared to welcome OPEC's "efforts to rein in output" as helpful to their business, which of course is the same as OPEC's, selling oil. And in 1999, BP Amoco (now BP) actually had a "Midwest, Mid-Continent Strategy" to avoid putting more oil on the market than their profitability could take...
...rump. With the suffering global economy keeping prices down all winter, first-quarter earnings season has hardly been a great one for BP (profits down 57 percent year-over-year), ChevronTexaco (down 70 percent), Conoco (down 84 percent) or ExxonMobil (down 58 percent). And the oft-quoted Marathon Oil? Net income in Q1 2002 was down 87 percent from 2001, due primarily to - as was the case for all of the above - reduced profit margins for refined crude products...
...countless hours strolling in the malls of greater Boston. Well, when you’ve lived in England all your life, it’s exciting to learn that all stores don’t close at 6 p.m. and that you can find a parking space within marathon distance of your destination. Ironically, in England, where indoor malls really would be useful to protect shoppers from the incessant rain, there are none. The English will probably have discovered them by 2020 but, heck, they’ve only just stumbled across toothpaste, so there are no guarantees...
Harvard beat Brown 5-2 in a marathon match in the blistering heat last season. The Crimson has seen Brown this year, but not in team play...
Though Hall and Gargan swore they would begin training for next year’s marathon that very afternoon, Green said watching his friends in pain convinced him that running simply wasn’t worth the trouble...