Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coast of Southern California, a small boat tows a 760-ft.-long tower of steel known as Platform Gail in an endless circle. In August, Chevron had the $25 million, Japanese-built drilling rig pulled across the Pacific, intending to set it up near the Channel Islands National Park. But last week the California coastal commission refused for a second time to give Chevron the go-ahead, partly because of fears that a spill could threaten the park's brown pelicans. Chevron is appealing the decision to Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige. Meanwhile, the company is racking...
...elegance than anything else in the sky. The contract let last week for the principal plane and a backup totaled $249.8 million -- a mind-boggling sum when one considers that Teddy Roosevelt, the first President to fly (19 months out of office), strapped himself into a spruce-and-wire rig down in St. Louis in 1910 and chugged over a field at 50 ft., waving his fedora. You could pick up a couple of those planes from Orville and Wilbur Wright in Dayton for about $10,000. The price of the 747s, which ultimately will come close to $300 < million...
...lady with the unusual haircut and add her to the stack. Go get Meyer and the boat and bring the boat around. Use the big anchor and the power takeoff winch to pull the Flush out of the mangroves. Cork up the Munequita and rig a pump and float her." The form has also had its share of parodies. The best was S.J. Perelman's Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer: "I shifted my two hundred pounds slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched it burn down...
...open about decisions and receptive to criticism. Harvard has been running scared from a campaign by three graduates running for seats on a 30-member, rubber-stamping oversight committee on a divestment platform. Instead of facing the challenge to their investment ideas, the administration has tried to rig the election and has hidden facts about their decision-making process from the public...
...when Justice William Rehnquist joined the Washington Savoyards Ltd. for a surprise walk-on during their production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. + Appropriately cast as the Solicitor, Rehnquist made his one-night-only appearance during the finale of the first act. Having been persuaded by the heroine to rig a raffle so that she can win the man she loves, Rehnquist stepped forward and, with much judicial flourish, presented a large bowl filled with extra tickets. The Justice, who reappeared for a solo curtain call (Oyez! Oyez!), turned out to be a real trouper. Reports Savoyards' Nancy...