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...July 11, when the price of crude oil peaked at $147.27 per bbl., SemGroup, a major oil distributor based in Tulsa, Okla., was only a week or so away from a potential $5 billion payoff. Instead, the company imploded. And soon afterward, so did the price of oil, dropping some 60% in the subsequent months, to a recent price below...
...filmmakers who have the credibility. It’s Jigsaw. Nowhere in “Saw” is there one shred of doubt that every single one of Jigsaw’s victims deserves what he gets. We don’t delight in their distress per se, but there is a wholesome schadenfreude in seeing the guilty squirm...
...nurses were brought in to consult during production in order to make the show as realistic as possible.Threaded together with overarching plots, these true-to-life details made for a ratings hit. For its first four seasons, the Emmy-winning show maintained an average of around 30 million viewers per season. All of this began to change in 2004, though, as the show’s viewer ranking slipped out of the top 15 and its average viewership was halved. This may be the result of NBC’s general slide, the rise of internet TV, or simply just...
...once on each. Harvard, on the other hand, is ranked last in both categories.Also key to a victory will be the Crimson’s ability to take advantage of its fearsome passing attack to jump out to an early lead, since the Quakers average a mere 18 points per game.“Franklin Field’s always a tough place to play,” Pizzotti said. “Penn always has a very good defense…they’re one of the most physical teams we’ll play all year...
...package - which could easily be doubled to $100 billion - would have five components: • A green bailout for the automakers, with a quid pro quo: they would have to increase fuel-efficiency standards in their cars at least 4% per year and make major investments in new battery technology for plug-in hybrids. • A green-infrastructure fund to make existing public buildings more energy-efficient and provide homeowners with tax breaks to do the same. "This could help revive the construction industry," Hendricks says...