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...range from general information services like the Source, a Reader's Digest subsidiary in McLean, Va., which can provide stock prices, airline schedules or movie reviews, to more specialized services like the American Medical Association's AMA/NET, to real esoterica like the Hughes Rotary Rig Report. Fees vary from $300 an hour to less than...
...against rig-ins began in 1979 with the chance remark of an Illinois paving contractor. He told a federal investigator looking into alleged bidding improprieties, "If you think it's bad here, you ought to see it in Tennessee." The Justice Department made haste to do exactly that, eventually prosecuting 44 cases in that state alone. Among those nailed: the brother and uncle of former Governor Ray Blanton. As guilty contractors began plea bargaining for lighter sentences and lower fines, they implicated other firms outside Tennessee, a process that quickly revealed an ever widening web of anticompetitive conspiracy...
...Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, there are two personal statistics of which he keeps careful track. The first concerns something called DXing, or long-distance communications by amateur radio. Magnuson, call sign W21JB, is an enthusiastic practitioner: in the past seven years, operating his rig from his apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village, he has made at least one contact with 301 of the 315 "countries" from which ham radio broadcasts can originate (a total that includes a single country's widely separated parts, such as Hawaii and Alaska...
Some firms already foresee a rebound and are starting to buy oilfield equipment on the cheap. "Anyone can steal a rig now," says James Jackson of Jim Davis Auctioneers in Dallas. "All the boys out there are hurting...
...rig costs in some areas are down some 40% from their peak levels of two years ago. The result, for those with the capital or a gambler's nerves, is low-cost ventures that can make even cheap energy pay off. Argues Sanford McCormick, president of Houston-based McCormick Oil & Gas Co.: "At today's costs, there's nothing wrong with the exploration business at $28 a barrel. I'll take that any time...