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Offshore Oil Drilling. Watt had offered to lease up to a billion acres of continental shelf over five years for oil drilling in multimillion-acre tracts. The report charges that Clark continues to parcel the shelf in enormous chunks, overriding warnings of an undesirable environmental impact. Clark has postponed a decision on a critical 37 million-acre patch of land off the California coast until after the election, which the environmentalists interpret as a sign that he plans to lease the parcel when it is politically safe. (Clark insists that he is bound by a congressional moratorium until at least...
...newly built, seven-acre, 61,000-seat stadium known as Hoosier Dome. The $78 million complex is in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, its white-fabric, air-supported, 257-ton roof puffed up like a huge blanket. The stadium, built with a combination of public and private funds, including multimillion-dollar endowments from foundations and a 1% tax on food and beverages, is a major reason why the Colts have come to Indianapolis, and a tribute to the foresight and business acumen of the people running the city...
...images of the American Civil War. For the mastermind of it all, Texas-born Robert Wilson, 42, it is the boldest venture yet in an avant-garde theatrical career that has specialized in audacity. It is the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, a multimillion-dollar "opera" that, when its segments are finally brought together, will last up to twelve hours...
...multimillion-acre deal...
...estimated losses. Thompson had failed to let other board members know that his bank was the target of a securities probe. It has also been disclosed that while serving on the SFC board, Thompson tried to sell Utica stock to Texas Oilman Belton K. Johnson, even as Johnson sought multimillion-dollar subsidies from the SFC for two tar-sands projects. Last week the agency asked the Justice Department to look into bringing criminal charges against Thompson...