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Until recently, drilling in the Gulf was concentrated close to shore in water as shallow as 9 m (30 ft.). But now that most of those easy-to-tap reserves are depleted, oilmen are looking to the slopes of the continental shelf, hundreds of meters deep and 160 km (100 miles) or more from land. The cutoff of oil supplies from Kuwait and Iraq and the resulting run-up in prices have lent new urgency to the exploration ventures, some of which have been in the works for a few years. "Oil at $30 to $40 a barrel is suddenly...
While governments around the world have rallied to join George Bush's anti- Saddam coalition, popular support for military involvement in the gulf is shallow even among some of America's staunchest allies. For other countries tangled in the alliance, war is a minority, potentially untenable proposition...
Considering the young season and young Crimson lineup and the shallow, slow Brown pool, the times were strong. The Crimson freshmen dominated the show with first-place finishes from Dave Bandy, Gouldson, Matthew Mckay, Ou and diver Craig Narveson. In the 200-meter butterfly, the Brown squad couldn't even crack the two-minute barrier, while Harvard's four entrants swept the first four places...
...have set out to describe. Abstract Expressionism, for instance, tended to set itself above popular culture -- yet one of its true icons, De Kooning's 1950 study for Woman, had a smile cut from an ad for Camel cigarettes. The work does not appear in the show. There are shallow passages: the bay devoted to Russian Constructivism, Futurism and the Bauhaus, for instance, is mingy. Yet many excellent works of art proliferate, from Cubist collages to exquisite, large-scale paintings by Cy Twombly and some of Robert Rauschenberg's early combines, like Rebus, 1955; from James Rosenquist's room- size...
Futhermore, it would also ensure the success of massive and shallow publicity campaigns since name-recognition would be more important than the candidates' platforms...