Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bridgeton took on oil at week's end and another reflagged tanker, the Gas Prince, began its return trip with a full load, it was all too clear that the gulf is no place for ill-conceived operations. Had the mine been struck by a U.S. warship instead of the Bridgeton, the result might well have been yet another tragedy, with no easy way to retaliate. Indeed, from its inception, the whole reflagging operation has seemed drawn from Alice's curiouser and curiouser looking-glass world...
...America's stated goal is to protect oil shipments. But oil experts say the gulf war has stopped only 1% of tanker traffic. What's more, a halt in tanker traffic would damage Iran the most. Thus America's bold action is directly defending Iran's highest strategic interests...
...shrank from its commitment to protect free shipping in the gulf, it might as well discard any pretense of being a superpower. Nor could the U.S. afford to stand by idly after the Soviets earlier this year eagerly accepted Kuwait's invitation to help protect its oil shipments...
Many of those ideas are too bizarre to meet strict operating standards imposed on the Texas system in 1980 by Federal Judge William Wayne Justice. Nonetheless, entrepreneurs keep trying. Hard times in the oil patch have spurred hucksters to offer up abandoned office buildings, foreclosed motels and warehouses to the corrections department as makeshift pens. A few down- and-out Houstonians are even trying to foist off their homes as mini- detention centers...
...followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, onetime spiritual mentor of the Beatles. Asking price: $2.9 million. Houston Salvage Operator George Walsh is hawking one of Britain's Falkland Islands barges, currently in the South Atlantic, for $6 million. The U.S. Government has offered to stash miscreants on offshore oil- drilling platforms...