Word: move
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...another Spindletop or North Slope, the industry has known for years that substantial reserves were available off the East Coast. With the price of new oil virtually deregulated, those finds have become all the more desirable. Though the Supreme Court decision set no precedent, the oilmen hope it may move other courts to rule in their favor in a case involving those lease tracts in the Georges Bank area, 100 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass., that are still blocked...
Exxon expects to have a rig at the Baltimore Canyon in less than three weeks; within an additional 90 days, the company should drill the first well. Shell's Pacesetter II rig, now drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, will move to the Baltimore Canyon by mid-April. Texaco, Continental, Mobil, Gulf and Houston Oil & Minerals are also moving rigs to the area...
Some thorny problems lie ahead. The oil companies stress that even if they were to hit oil on the first drilling, it would still take five years to get a well into production. Moreover, the U.S. Geological Survey is wrestling with the problem of approving pipelines to move the oil and gas safely to shore. Oil from the Atlantic is a long way off, but at least a start has been made...
Crimson co-captain Duncan Pyle smoothly glided to sixth place in the 200-yd. back to move Harvard within seven...
...dancers the way two children would flip an unwieldy pillow. There is no hint of moral implication or sociological statement in Cunningham's unlikely equation. Instead, he catches the audience off-balance with an impishly daring physical metaphor in order to explore an aspect of the way bodies move in space...