Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade-off is ironic, since the double trailers-more than 75 ft. long, 102 in. wide and up to 80,000 Ibs. in weight-are highway crushers. The Georgia transportation department estimates that one fully loaded big rig does as much damage as 4,550 cars. Moreover, federal studies show that the large trucks are not as safe as standard models because, empty or partly loaded, their wheels are more likely to lose contact with the road when brakes are applied...
...exist in the U.S. 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...
...Eliot entered two boats in the House crew finals, and the Elephants copped both first and second place. After taking the 1962 race, Eliot glided to a two-and-a-half length victory in the 1963 non-race. The sophisticated Italian rig they used was designed with both the number four and the number five man rowing starboard, thus reducing the torque in the middle of the boat. Germany's world-champion Ratzeburg crew used the same type of shell...
...million bbl. Other industry estimates put it as high as 500 million bbl., and one Government expert says the ultimate potential could be 1 billion bbl. Such heady forecasts have drillers scrambling. Texaco is already operating the Glomar Atlantic, a drillship, in the area, and Phillips has dispatched a rig from Africa's Ivory Coast to help with the exploration. Last week Exxon requested federal permission for a $3 billion project to boost production at Santa Ynez, a separate oil deposit only 27 miles away, which the company believes contains an additional 400 million...
...Neiman-Marcus, for instance, has offered everything from his-and-her airplanes to a paleontological safari in Utah to baby Asian elephants. Sakowitz, its Texas rival, has presented such opulent entries as a bathtub full of diamonds, a chateau in a French wine district and a personalized offshore oil rig. This year proves to be reliably rich in the wish books...