Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fagnani was working on an oil rig 60 miles off the coast, when the helicopter dispatched to evacuate the rig for protection from Hurricane Allen went down in turbulent weather. Twelve others died in the mishap...
...polka-dotted green. The mimic cat, it turns out, is named Readmore. And he-or she, or it-is part of the crew of this onetime school bus that the Indiana department of public instruction has dressed up as a roving Read-A-Rama, or bookmobile. The rig has rolled into leafy Claypool (pop. 464), the smallest of 102 cities and towns on its route, to stir up interest in reading by giving some books away...
...high-level crackdown last week just before the congress convened, Petroleum Industry Minister Song Zhenming was ousted after being blamed for an offshore oil-rig accident last November in which 72 people were killed. The incident occurred when a drilling rig that was being towed to a new location in stormy seas, apparently against technical advice, collapsed. In an "obvious deception," the People's Daily charged, Song had blamed the disaster on the weather instead of bad judgment. Some foreign analysts suspect that the rig disaster could serve as a handy pretext to purge the Petroleum Ministry...
...feels the pinch of inflation too: every time it raises the price of crude, its dollars depreciate. Everyone is caught in a viscous circle-until the entrance of David Harrison, American freelance financial adviser, connoisseur of paintings, wine, well-bound books and unfettered women. Petrodollars, he reasons coldly, can rig almost anything, including the stock market. His plan is simple. Surreptitiously insert billions of those dollars into the U.S. stock market and then cut the price of oil to $10 per bbl. The Dow Jones average will go through the top of the World Trade Center, and the Kingdom will...
...energy in Saturday Night Fever, woofing his dialogue in a clipped, arrogant, street dialect that matched the simplicity and pant-leg vision of his character. But he brings none of that same energy to director James Bridges' Texas hoedown, which attempts to show where them high-paid redneck rig-works head when the lights go down on the Lone Star prairie. Without a central character who can do anything more than look dumb--convincingly--Bridges has nowhere to take his film...