Word: sexton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deakins says her roommate, a sexton in Memorial Church, saw a strange man on the premises when she was closing up. She saw him again, later in the night, and grew nervous enough that she told a security guard about...
...often became re-oiled. In many cases oil that had seeped down through shoreline sediments to a depth of as much as three feet was pumped back to the surface by 15-ft. tides. "We treated some of those areas as many as seven times," says Exxon spokesman David Sexton. In all, the company says, it recovered 61,000 bbl. of the 260,000 spilled. The $1 billion spent on the cleanup translates into $390 for each gallon of oil recovered...
...other 199,000 bbl.? Exxon professes not to know, a curious stance for a company that in other circumstances makes a corporate fetish out of accounting for every last barrel in its inventory. "I'm not going to speculate how much oil is left and where it is," says Sexton. As much as 25% of the crude may have evaporated in the early days after the spill. Much of the rest, guesses Lars Foyn, a fishery expert with the Marine Research Institute in Bergen, Norway, has become diluted in the water and disappeared. Most of the experts in Alaska privately...
...looking in the Crimson trophy case for the Adams Cup, well...no it's not hidden behind the Stein Trophy, the Redwood Shores Trophy, the Compton Cup, the Worcester Bowl, the Sexton Cup and the national championship trophy...
...ushered into the box-like family pews for what the minister termed a "little five minute talk." He tells us about Robert Newman (the trusty church sexton, remember?) and name drops Queen Elizabeth II and President Ford. After all, Pax Britannia may be dead and the colonies may be dead and the colonies may be free, but Episcopalian ministers still know who's got class. And who's got money. As we leave the church, he reminds us that the parish is funded only by our donations and hands out his business card, telling us to "come again...