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Aramco now operates under the shadow of nationalization. The company is indeed a plum - the world's biggest oil producer sitting atop the world's largest reserves. Aramco's average well yields 12,000 bbl. per day, as compared with the average U.S. well's 18 bbl. Its refinery and port complex at Ras Tanura on the Persian Gulf can turn out more product (600,000 bbl. per day), store more oil and load more supertankers than any other facility on the globe...
...Menk has managed to reduce the firm's payroll by 8% and retire 8,000 obsolete cars. But total labor costs have gone up 48%, and Burlington Northern has lacked the capital to buy enough new equipment to handle increased traffic. Last year the company's own Plum Creek Lumber Co., in Montana, had to ship some of its output by truck because there were not enough B.N. freight cars around...
Interstate Epidemic. CDC investigators are able to close the books on some cases with little trouble. They had few problems, for example, figuring out why a batch of plum wine that had fermented in an old bathtub caused lead poisoning in only one of several people who helped concoct the stuff. Under questioning, the man sheepishly revealed that he had consumed 50 gallons...
...schools in this exhibition-the misty gray impalpability of Ma Lin in the 13th century with the dark stormy flood of ink from which Mu Ch'i's tiger rises, or the epigrammatic beauty of the late 15th century P'eng Hsü's plum branch-it is the pursuit of what Taoist scholars called...
...know that Harvard is in a position to see to it that if AP&L builds their plant they build it in such a way as to minimize the threat which the plant poses to the economic livelihood of rural Arkansas. Consequently, the farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou, organized into the ACORN Protect Our Land Association, ask Harvard to exert pressure on Middle South Utilities to do the following things...