Word: mobiles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must do their sponsors' bidding feel used? Not necessarily. Carvey says the parody- as-plug idea was his. "It was just kind of boring to call it The Dana Carvey Show," he says. "The idea came off of sports shows like the Doritos Cotton Bowl." Actually, it was the Mobil Cotton Bowl, so maybe in-show product placement isn't as effective as advertisers hope. At any rate, Carvey isn't quite the "whore" his show alleges. Though Pepsico pays ABC extra for the special treatment, "if they were paying me more, I wouldn't do it," Carvey says, adding...
Although a set of Mobil gas pumps stood 50 yards away from the blazing auto shop, Reardon said, due to recent safety upgrades, they were in little danger of igniting...
...hooray! Texas Tech (6-5) is going to the Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic, but they won their conference, and 6-4-1 Notre Dame's playing in the IBM/OS2 Fiesta Bowl is also a joke...
Because most of the new fields are in inhospitable regions, exploitation costs are huge. In Canada a consortium led by Mobil is investing $4 billion to build and install the world's heaviest -- and costliest -- drilling platform 200 miles southeast of the coast of Newfoundland. The 1.1 million-ton rig, designed to withstand collisions with the giant icebergs that regularly drift through the area, will begin tapping the North Atlantic's 2 billion-bbl. Hibernia field...
...field's potential has put it at the center of a possibly explosive territorial dispute. Mobil is rushing to sink a well this summer in defiance of a claim by China, which insists that its international waters extend as far as the Blue Dragon site. Beijing meanwhile has granted a small U.S. oil company, Crestone Energy Corp., a concession just east of Blue Dragon in waters claimed by Vietnam; Hanoi is looking for a company to explore the same site...