Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spill off the shores of Kuwait, which was widely reported to be the largest in history -- some 11 million bbl. -- is now estimated to be one- quarter to one-twentieth that size, making it smaller than the 1979-80 Gulf of Mexico spill at the offshore drilling rig known as Ixtoc I. Similarly, Carl Sagan's well-publicized prediction that smoke from the oil fires could rise 5 to 10 km (3 to 6 miles) to the stratosphere and blanket the globe has not yet come to pass. So far, the smoke clouds are hugging the ground, drifting...
...demonstrators believe the Front holds an unfair advantage in parliamentary elections slated for May 20. Some charge that the Front may attempt to rig the balloting. Critics say almost 90% of the group's members are former Communists. Iliescu's vow that a "return to the past is impossible" has failed to reassure his detractors. Says Sergiu Cunescu, chairman of the center-right Social Democratic Party: "People live in fear...
...some shopping around to find an opening in the National Guard. (In 1988 he said he meant to go to law school, but he had not applied to one.) He asked people he knew about the Guard, whom to call, but it is unlikely they did or could rig things for him. His grandfather was semiretired in Arizona; his father was not a natural ally in this effort. He had the advantage of knowing where to go, but not of fixing what the response would...
...obstruct the opening of new department stores that could stock larger amounts of foreign wares. It presently takes up to ten years for a store opening to be approved; Tokyo said it would shorten the process to about a year. Japan also pledged stiffer antitrust penalties for companies that rig bids to freeze out foreign suppliers. Moreover, Tokyo vowed to increase government spending on public works such as airports, roads and sewers. Besides creating business opportunities for U.S. contractors, such projects would facilitate the flow of imported goods to Japanese retailers...
...they are strong. There is also Cubanito, a drug dealer who hates the sloppiness of killing and reads FORTUNE so that he can diversify and buy a McDonald's. He is learning the "langwich," he tells Danny. The sweet, agoraphobic Michael, Lauren's brother, a caretaker for an oil rig, trades commodities from his darkened, video-wired beach house (as cozy, Danny says, as the inside of a digital watch). Finally, there are Jane Holt, Newport Beach's first female police chief, who believes she can find safety in life if she can achieve order, and her old-fashioned partner...