Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday, council member Marc D. McKay '94 called for the impeachment of Vice Chair Maya G. Prabhu '94, charging her with trying to rig the election against him and his co-candidate, Spyros Poulios...
Harvard Business School officials are currently investigating a student's alleged attempt to rig the elections of the school's prestigious Finance Club Last week...
...growing class of undereducated white youth, a threatening prospect considering how cloudy and volatile are the thoughts and feelings Terkel assembles. This is understandable. Race itself is an irrational subject, which may be "the American obsession" but is not an American invention. The 3,000-year-old Rig-Veda tells of the Aryan god Indra's hatred for the black-skinned anasya. Han dynasty historians (right for the wrong reasons) believed yellow-haired, green-eyed people evolved from primates. The Babylonian Talmud attributes the blackness of Ham's descendants to Jehovah's curse...
Across the South and West, drilling activity for crude oil is at its lowest point in 52 years. The rig count, the best gauge of life in the oil patch, hovered last week near an all-time low of 660. Production from existing fields has shrunk to its lowest since 1962. Scores of drillers, producers and support firms are laying off, folding up or going bankrupt. Warns Denise Bode, president of the International Petroleum Association of America: "The industry is nearing a state of economic collapse...
...more basic worry is that unless drilling rebounds to the 1,100-rig level and stays there, the industry's infrastructure will be so impaired that it won't be able to come back -- ever -- and U.S. production will slip further. Oilmen decry the lack of attention and support that they feel the industry gets -- from the White House on down. "We should have a domestic energy policy, but we still don't have," asserts Pickens. Baker Hughes economist Ike Kerridge agrees: "There's a real danger in driving too many people out of business. The government ought...