Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life for the roughly 60 men aboard each drilling rig is a strict routine of twelve hours on duty and twelve off during seven days at sea. The center of the rig's activities is the mud-slicked drill floor, where half a dozen roughnecks struggle day and night with heavy chains and power-driven winches to shove 90-ft.-long pieces of drill pipe into the narrow hole. During the twelve hours off, the roustabouts spend most of their time sleeping, although they can also fish for baby sharks and sand trout or watch the latest porno movie...
...since other oil teams under Egyptian contracts are also working there. Israeli naval crews last fall shot at equipment owned by Amoco to keep that American company from working in the Gulf of Suez just off El Tur. Then in December, Israel set up its own costly offshore drilling rig, manned mainly by American roughnecks. Two weeks ago the Israelis began sinking another hole on the shore at El Tur, slant-drilling into the waters whose ownership it disputes...
...transceivers were boosted dramatically by gutted prices on current 23-channel gear, which becomes less desirable this week when the Government increases the number of CB channels to 40 (see story page 51). King's Department Stores, a Boston-based chain, cut the price of one popular CB rig from $159 to $59; one store sold 20 in two hours. Despite movement of such items, retailers are generally conservative as they enter 1977. There is no rush to build inventories, and about all most sellers hope for is a carryover of at least some Christmas momentum into this year...
...hockey also vociferously oppose legalized betting on their sports though this nonetheless seems likely to follow across the nation. The more deeply held moral objection to sports betting stems from the fear that the states may get into wagering on college or other amateur sports, where the temptation to rig games could be stronger and easier to fulfill...
...teacher, nicely played by Betty Buckley, rescues her and punishes her tormentors with extrastrenuous work outs, which naturally leads the dear chil dren to plot still deeper humiliation for Carrie. The idea is to rig her election as prom queen and destroy her at her moment of unexpected triumph...