Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...length, that once had the run of the Indian countryside. To the dismay of the Indian Parliament, these are hard times for the dhaman, as well as for the more than 20 other varieties of Indian herpetofauna that prey on, among other things, the domestic brown rat, known as Rattus rattus. Thanks in part to commerce, which values the hide of a snake more than that of a rat, the rodents have been winning the battle against their deadliest enemy. Two weeks ago, India's legislators decided it was time to redress the balance. They choked off the nation...
...career in government. He thinks that while he might be a hero to some, he would be a rat or a snitcher in some eyes...
...Rat Hat. Oceaneering now has 951 employees, including 500 divers, working in 25 countries, mainly for the booming offshore oil and gas industry. The company's skills, which earned it $7 million in 1975 on total revenues of $52 million, include surveying drilling sites, building submarine pipelines, and maintaining platforms and subsurface wellheads-all hazardous chores in a hostile environment that is unforgiving of mistakes. Handelman and Oceaneering's co-founder and chairman, Mike Hughes, 37, met in 1964 when both were running tiny diving companies. The young entrepreneurs joined forces with a third small company, Canadian Diving...
Oceaneering has grown largely because of technological innovations that enable its divers to descend as far as 1,000 ft.-a depth that was rarely attempted a few years ago. It has developed, among other items, a complex fiber glass "rat hat" that warms the helium-oxygen mixture that divers must breathe at the very cold depths below 200 ft. to avoid the disabling nitrogen narcosis commonly known as "rapture of the deep." The $2,500 hat has been successfully tested at 1,600 ft.; Oceaneering refuses to sell it to anyone-even the U.S. Navy, which has chastised...
...imperious Rasta, Marley is deeply distrustful of politics. "Never make a politician grant you a favor, they will always want to control you forever," he sings in the song Revolution. The current hit single in Jamaica is his song about the island's upcoming parliamentary campaign. Its title: Rat Race...