Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ordinarily such leaks are repaired within weeks. Iran says that it sent experts to inspect the damage, but that they were bombarded by the Iraqis in air attacks. On March 2, Iraq announced that any ships that came near the damaged platforms would be treated as military targets. Iranian officials say they had offered Texan Red Adair, the world's best-known oil troubleshooter, $1 million to supervise a repair effort, but that he refused to work under war-time conditions. The immense slick developed, says a Western diplomat in Bahrain, because "no one will go out there...
...political solution that would allow experts to go into the area of the spill have been stymied by the bitterness of the war between Iran and Iraq. At the urging of the smaller gulf states, officials from the United Nations last week agreed to oversee the cease-fire and repair work on the wells. But at the Kuwait meeting, efforts to negotiate the details of an accord stalled amid endless bickering. Iraq insisted that any cease-fire agreement prevent Iran from using the delay to rearm. In turn, the Iranians charged that the Iraqis secretly hope to turn any temporary...
Sellers of farm equipment will be among those hit in 1983. Cash-squeezed farmers had cut back on purchases of new equipment even before this year, leaving manufacturers and dealers with huge inventories. The DOA projects that PIK will reduce spending for purchases and repair of tractors, combines and other machinery by an additional 8% this year, to $18.2 billion. Says Emmett Barker, president of the Chicago-based Farm & Industrial Equipment Institute, a trade group: "The size of the acreage cutback can't help but be disastrous to many businesses. There is no way that you can take...
...banker, lost his job, squandered his inheritance, and developed a hole in the septum of his nose. Nevertheless, he says, "I felt powerful, in control. Cocaine is ego food. It feeds the ego like nothing I've ever seen in my life." Tony, the owner of a Denver tire-repair shop, used four grams a day. Says he: "I wanted to feel like a kingpin, the life of the party. Coke gave me all of this. You get to feeling you're bulletproof." (Bulletproof Tony, arrested for selling more than half a pound to an undercover cop, is on probation...
Topics raised at the conference included the city point of view of the infrastructure problem, the business point of view, and the different ways of financing repair projects...