Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because most of the new fields are in inhospitable regions, exploitation costs are huge. In Canada a consortium led by Mobil is investing $4 billion to build and install the world's heaviest -- and costliest -- drilling platform 200 miles southeast of the coast of Newfoundland. The 1.1 million-ton rig, designed to withstand collisions with the giant icebergs that regularly drift through the area, will begin tapping the North Atlantic's 2 billion-bbl. Hibernia field...
...Edwards must have figured that voters were losing patience with his adventures along the frontiers of ethical conduct. Though never found guilty of any crime, he has been the subject of at least 20 criminal investigations and has twice beat charges that he tried, while out of office, to rig the state's program to certify hospitals -- pocketing $1.9 million in the process. During Edwards' 1991 campaign, a closely watched race against former Klansman David Duke, one of his supporters' favorite bumper stickers read, Vote for the Crook. It's Important...
...relying on pretty metaphors rather than cogent messages. Speaking at the Juilliard School, Jane Alexander, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, made a hazy comparison between life and sailing. "You chart a trek where no one's sailed before," she said, quoting the poet Samuel Hazo. "You rig. You anchor Up. You said." A nice almost inspirational image, but not very useful advice to the Class...
...Rig: Die Hard on an oil rig...
...represent the government in the peace talks. In that role he stole the limelight from Colosio, and in late February he came up with tentative agreements on improved medical care, housing and other services for impoverished communities, along with proposed reforms intended to make elections harder to rig...